Take the road less traveled

I guess I've beat this one to death on this blog but I really don't like my career. I've actually found myself getting mad at myself and people I like working with because they seem happy and I am not, I wonder why. Truth is I don't know if I'll ever be truly happy where I work but I guess part of me thinks I have to try something else in hopes that there is something out there. It's logical that I would want to pursue something beery since I am such a beer fanatic but I also wonder if I would want it to be work since it is recreation at this point. Maybe doing something I really like would be great as a job, maybe it would taint my idea of fun, I don't know. Long story short I'm at a "fork in the road" as it were, waiting in the cue. Funny thing is I actually talked myself into making that first step in making a 180 in my career life. I make good money, well good for me, but I applied for and talked to the owner for a job in the fermentation industry that pays less than half what I make right now and has no benefits (well in the medical coverage sense). Benefits is a relative word because I have health benefits and retirement benefits but will I live long if I have a bad attitude toward my career for the next 30 years? What is the leading cause of heart failure? Lets all say it stress!!! And maybe not just the type of stress that forces you to work harder and harder but the stress caused by no fulfillment in your life. I have read that somewhere around 80% of the population is dissatisfied with their current employment, but we all get stuck, we get mortgages and kids and then we're stuck. I don't have kids I don't have a mortgage so I have some leeway, but as we all know you can't live on minimum wage these days. My wife and I have discussed it and we can cut back and make it work, now all I have to hope for is the chance to get the job.