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You are an adventurous, curious soul who feels tied down by routine and predictability. You're practical, sociable, but looking for something exciting, some deeper experience that you can't find working a typical 9-to-5. 
Why not research programs for teaching English abroad? You can pay your way as you travel the globe, experiencing new cultures, meeting interesting people, and building on your fantastic abilities of self-reliance, independence, adaptability, and bravery.
You never know what could result from taking a leap into the unknown.

Teach English Abroad

You are a driven, perceptive, creative person. You need to be in action. Working in an office, sitting at a desk all day, is not something you feel fulfilled by.
Why not buy a decent camera and some photo editing software and begin snapping shots? You can sell your work online as stock photography, you can create prints of your work to sell as art, or you could begin soliciting gigs for family and event photo sessions in your area.
If you begin now, you could start supplementing - and maybe even fully replacing - the income from your day job!

Become a Professional Photographer

You're a wheeler and a dealer. You appreciate fine things in life and have a sharp nose for a deal. You enjoy quirky and whimsical things, and you'd like to live a much more interesting existence. You love a good mystery.
You can't quite jump literally into antiques dealing, but why not try doing something like opening an Etsy shop and filling it with intriguing vintage finds? Maybe go to a few estate sales and see what sorts of treasures you can discover. Perhaps you could try renting a booth at a fair and having a pop-up shop full of mysterious and lovely old objects. Why not?

Become a Savvy Antiques Dealer

Nothing is more satisfying than being in a kitchen, full of delicious bubbly pots and hot things in the oven and cool vegetables being sliced on a chopping board, and having all of your senses full of pleasant, comforting, exciting flavors, sensory memories, culinary explorations.
Becoming a renowned cookbook author would be a dream, but for now, why not try starting a food blog, a youtube channel, or maybe just challenge yourself to cook or bake some new and exciting things from famous cookbooks. Maybe you could create custom canapés for a party, maybe you could sell your fabulous cakes to friends and family, maybe you could start a granola empire and supply local cafés with your amazing granola mixes. The possibilities are endless, and also delicious.

Become a Renowned Cookbook Author

You have stories inside of you and they need to come out. You know it, I know it, no surprises here! You feel them at your fingertips, just around the corner, haunting corners of your brain every day. 
All you're missing is some peace, a little bit of solitude, and a cozy little nook from which to pound out your masterpiece.
My friend, I am here with a message: conditions are never absolutely perfect. Write anyway. Write despite it all.
Find ways to motivate yourself - find a writing group for collaboration and feedback, participate in NaNoWriMo and spend all of November typing nonsensically (but still writing - just write, write write). Do word sprints. Dedicate an hour of your evenings even if your job has drained you and you'd rather watch TV. Don't wait for the muse of inspiration to perch ever so lightly on your shoulder, or for every word to be perfect, just DO IT. Write!

Write a Bestselling Novel

You. You are a person with grand ambition. You believe in fate. You feel the desire for fame, fortune, grand romance, riches, jewels, status. You may not have been born a duchessa, but you are destined to become one anyway, or at least live like one.
You could create a persona and storm the world with it - for good or for evil! Fancy furs, chic shoes, a late night out, a careful name-drop, and you may get your dinner comped for all you know (just kidding, don't do that).
Find ways to get out and meet people, find connections, explore your limits. Pick up event work, try stand-up comedy, find someone to work with to create music (you'd be the frontman of course) and releasing some tracks on Soundcloud, just for fun. Maybe you should learn to mix drinks and go into bartending at a chic bar. Start charming people who know people - maybe you'll end up running ayahuasca retreats in Ibiza and glittering like gold.

Become a Duchessa of Mysterious Provenance

You find peace in small moments. You believe in love. You are logical and laid-back and love being outdoors and at home. Maybe you've tinkered with gardening in the past, growing some tomatoes during the summer or nurturing an air plant in your bedroom. Sometimes you dream about adopting a baby goat or building a chicken coop in your (maybe for-now hypothetical) house's backyard.
Why not try growing a lot of things? If you live in an apartment, maybe you could try raising some cacti and succulents and selling them, or growing pots of herbs on your balcony and selling bundles. If you're lucky enough to own a patch of earth, why not try growing a bunch of wildflowers (and selling them as bouquets), or starting a vegetable garden - ultra-fresh food for you to snack on, and you can sell or give away the rest.
At the very least, growing your own flowers or fresh vegetables or baby cacti will give you something beautiful to look at every day, and having beautiful growing things around you will make everything a little bit more meaningful.

Grow Things, Sell Things

You are an adventurous soul who finds solace being outdoors, enjoying time alone in nature. You love to explore your own capabilities. You like alone time to reflect on your life. You enjoy looking up at the stars, considering how small you are within the vastness of the universe.
Maybe joining a crew to sail boats from port to port is a step beyond where you're at right now (but it is a real job!). Instead, you could sign up for a sailing course - there are many low-cost courses through sailing organizations - or if sailing isn't your cup of tea, push yourself to try something else that will stretch your limits and give you a good dose of fresh air. Plan a hike, try rock climbing, maybe take some time to complete a long pilgrimage walk, like El Camino de Santiago in Spain or Kumano Kodo in Japan. Even if you're not religious, walking for a week or two in beautiful nature is a great way to re-center yourself, assess where you're at and where you're going, and discover what you're made of.

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