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hodgynd - Member
Binners..Jack Bauer boots ..are you a government agent too..?
[b]Ssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! [/b]
😀
given up your jobs Wallop?! what have you got planned?
just going into another job or something more aspirational?
Starting MX again at 57, I'm soooooo slow and have been on of injured all year. Loving it though and can't wait for next years season !!!
Backpacking in South America at 42 lol (it was amazing!! 🙂 )
Started surfing aged 39. Idiot.
(A friend questioned the notion of MLCs "I've always liked sex, drugs and rock 'n roll. Still do. What's the crisis?")
Singlespeed
And another old dad here too - 50 and two 8 yr olds.
@wallop, so have you and the boy actually quit?! Have you finished yet or still working your notice?
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What the HELL was I thinking!!!
Have been mulling over skateboarding and motorbikes for a while, usually some bill puts paid to my strange impulses
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SammyC - I’m officially on sabbatical from my old place but working for my father in law in the meantime (he has his own business). Other half is on gardening leave!
Jekkyl - bit of a lifestyle change I think. Just going to see what opportunities are out there... the excitement of the unknown!
I’ve been trying to swing a motorbike for last 7 or 8 years, since I was late 20s so that doesn’t count.
I’ve been thinking of learning to surf but I live about as far from the sea as its possible to get.
I’ll probably get an MX-5 or boxster or something in the next 5-10 years. I’m 35 now so a bit til I hit peak mid life crisis
BMX racing. Never did it as a kid so 40 seems the obvious age to scare the crap out of myself on an iddy biddy bike. Love it though.
Started playing drums again with a few lads from work. Still going after four years, really enjoying it.
Went to an audition last week for a part in a play at the local theatre. Never acted before. They offered me the part 😯 😳
Looking forward to it. Off to pick up my script tonight!
Going sober/straight/sensible.
Bloody daft idea. Bring back the lost weekends.
Which crisis exactly?
I suppose mine in my 50's is the Lapiz blue VW Golf sitting outside
In my 40's it was taking up cycling again, in particular mountain biking. Best think I ever did as it has improved my life in so many ways.
In my late 30's it was taking a year off work and going round the world on my own
Single speed at 47. Still love it 10 years later.
the Menoporsche!
Registering on an MTB forum.
Bought one of these just over a year ago, at 52 :
only actually been out on it once, but seemed to be starting to get the hang of it.
44 years old. 4 kids. 2 in college. Youngest 5. Oldest 22. Super demanding job that keeps getting busier.
Just signed as a personal guarantor for a new business (so I'm on the hook if it goes tits up). Am basically funding a new personal training and MMA gym that will be run daily by someone else with my wife and I managing the back office, finances etc. I will also train people there at the weekends (as an MMA striking coach).
In my mind, this will be fun and successful gig on the side, pay for a new motorbike and lease me a nice new car next year.
In reality I will be a stressed-out, debt-ridden nervous wreck with no time for an actual life and will be beaten senseless in sparring by stronger, fitter, faster animals 20 years my junior.
WTF am I thinking?!? 🙂
Edit. Me being a cock again. 😳
I bought a petrol strimmer for the allotment, and the braap made me want another motorcycle so, I bought another motorcycle.
Not had one for about 16 years..a motorcycle that is, not a strimmer.
road riding 😳
next installment might be one of those geometron frames 🙄
hoping that my late-mid life crisis will involve quitting work and doing lots of biking and me and MrsPants travelling to moderately interesting places (mostly with my bike(s) too)
Treated myself to a brand new Hayabusa , then had it tuned and remapped , race exhaust.. scared myself stupid for a couple of years 😀
Took up wakeboarding at the age of 44, now have no ACL in my left knee.....should have bought a 2 seater sports car!
Kids too - at 46 I've got a 7 year old, 5 year old and 10 month old. That's me done on that front though.
Oh, and I just bought a PS4 and a copy of GTA 5 - does that count?
Going crazy for wild camping stuff and spending lots of £££ I dont really have. To the point of buying a new bike just to do it....
eddiebaby - Member
Blonde, curvy and 22 yrs younger than me. (And still well legal.)
This only counts of you didn't pay for it.... If you did then it's a wise investment.
penguinni - Member
Began training as a Paramedic. At 54.
Surely that's a positive!
Bought an MX-5. What's silly about that you hear?
Exactly.... The gf has one. Brilliant motor and cost less than my bike!
Cruising through the Alps with the roof down is kinda nice.
mrmonkfinger - Member
Going sober/straight/sensible
Sounds shit
Took up road racing at 45. Have now just become a second Cat at 50. I think it took my club mate four races to get the same progression!
Ripstik riding is a lot of fun, especially at the Skate Park.
And wearing the kids hand-me-down Converses because my feet are smaller and narrower than theirs.
More into long boards now though
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I just quit a well paying job with no other job to go to, because it was the most toxic place I've ever worked and was ruining my mental health. Still have a mortgage and bills and everything although thankfully not commensurate with my peers, who have been spending money on tick like it was the apocalypse. Not sure what the next step is.
I can paint and cook and have a chemistry degree. Anyone hiring?
at 42, I gained a penchant for tailor made suits, and now have 3. 2 of them made in Vietnam whilst there on business in the most outlandish colours I could find.
I just quit a well paying job with no other job to go to, because it was the most toxic place I've ever worked and was ruining my mental health.
I did that too, aged 41. 😀
Best thing I ever did. Jib in my well paid corporate nonsense job. Still saying that 7 years later.
Another skateboard/bowl rider here at 50, realised that wipeouts hurt at 51 attempting my first drop-in at Braunton bowl.
I'm too skint to have a mid-life crisis....unless the black Friday deal I got on a Vax carpet cleaner for cleaning up the remnants of in-the-depths-of-the-night toddler sick counts.....?
It doesn't, does it?
I can [s]paint and[/s] cook and have a chemistry degree. Anyone hiring?
Get in touch with Heston Blumenthal.
I scrimped and scraped together enough money to take a direct access motorbike course when I was 32. Passed first time, but could never afford a bike.
I have not sat on a bike since passing my test 16 years ago and now have zero interest despite grown up kids and lots of cash.
This thread is great for mid life crisis ideas, thanks!
I've got a V8 itch I need to scratch. CLK 500 convertible seems the most sensible, but I keep hankering after my old TVR 350i from 20+ years ago.
Current itch is a new bike, just need to start saving me pennies.
alpin - Member
eddiebaby - Member
Blonde, curvy and 22 yrs younger than me. (And still well legal.)
This only counts of you didn't pay for it.... If you did then it's a wise investment.
Oh I paid alright. Split with wife. Threw in the best job in the world. Inevitably ended the relationship with the delightful young lady (who was probably the most intelligent and grounded person I've ever met) and pissed off to Cuba for two years.
Spent the last 13 years trying to minimise the damage I had done to others.
Most of the mid life crises above seem to be just shopping decisions.
I've got a V8 itch I need to scratch. CLK 500 convertible seems the most sensible, but I keep hankering after my old TVR 350i from 20+ years ago.
Ahh the V8 itch ... Got a Merc E500 here, same sort of idea - a most ideal MLC.