I'm 49 and still don't know what I want to do with my life. I have gone from career to career fairly aimlessly. Not because each job change has been best for me but because they're were what I felt pressured into taking. The end result was being stuck in a high stress job completely unlike what I would rather be doing. It was sucking my energies both physically and emotionally.

In my own case a traumatic incident happened and I have not worked for 5 years as a result.

I agree with my pdoc that it is time to think about going back but I am left without a clue of what to do. Owing to the PTSD I can't return to the only industry I have worked in. I have no other skills and have no clue what interests me or where to start. I am scared of the 'performance anxiety' related to work.

Although it is only myself, I too feel the pressure to again support myself.