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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have been living in the DC area for 10 years, working at a large gov contractor. Lately I've been getting tired of doing the "DC thing"--you know, paying a large amount of money for a small, old house with mediocre schools, huge day care costs, commuting, corporate rat race, and going after gov contracts year after year. The thought of doing this for another 20 to 25 years until I retire depresses me a lot.

I have been spending a lot of time fantasizing about having a different kind of life--maybe owing my own business and living in a different place. Unfortunately, I have basically been doing the same thing my entire career and feel I don't know how to do anything else. Maybe I'm just going through a mid life crisis? Has anyone successfully broken away from the DC thing? How did you take the first step?[/quote]

Anecdote alert, but I know a handful of friends who ended up doing this (breaking out of DC-Gov Consulting, namely). For them, it boiled down to a test of willpower and willingness to leave the comfort zone. Save some change and make the jump. If you hesitate or get cold feet more often than not, you'll probably never make the jump.

Those friends are now in a variety of industries, vaguely related to their work here in Washington. One in Pharma in northern NJ, one in commercial RE in Richmond (this guy actually just picked up and left DC without anything lined up), and[b] two of them left to start their own small consulting firm in Boston (they are doing moderately well[/b]). You really just need to be willing to take a risk and commit to it.[/quote]

If you don't like the DC rat race, Boston is not going to be much better.[/quote]

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