Yep - know your pain... Dex has helped me a lot. It gets me through my boring day job. But a big part of it is also learning to make peace with your eclectic

Yep - know your pain... Dex has helped me a lot. It gets me through my boring day job. But a big part of it is also learning to make peace with your eclectic nature. You'll bloom late - but it will happen. And you'll also have powers of thinking outside the box that will dwarf those around you simply because you've tried on so many different things. It might mean you won't be successful - and relationships for you are probably going to suck. But if you fight your nature to be what you're not - you're not even going to be able to take pleasure in your flights of fancy when they hit. Fitting into a straight box is going to be very difficult... so play to your strengths. To give you something more concrete - I'm 35. I've got 6 months to finish a phd before they won't let me re-enrol. I probably won't because the prospect of spending 6 months procrastinating and not getting anything done depresses the hell out of me. I've had 2 years off from the Phd now. In that time I learnt to program from scratch. Just today I deployed an app that I'm pretty proud of (shameless plug: http://puttheeffortin.com/ http://puttheeffortin.com/). The app itself is inspired by my very eclectic interests - I wouldn't have come up with the idea - or the motivation, drive without years and years of various aimless flights of intellectual fancy. So for me the PhD won't have been a waste - even if I don't finish it. None of it is a waste. Fighting distraction has been insanely hard. I love to write... http://reviewsindepth.com http://reviewsindepth.com - and when I get an idea I have to struggle hard against it. But when the urge gets too strong I just go with it - because my total productivity in the end is a thousand times higher. And now particularly that I've got a first version of this app out the door I'm going to reward myself with some free-time-madness... Got a couple of reviews to write - and currently have half a song on the guitar that I want to perhaps add a verse to. (I've never managed to finish a song... but a whole bunch of them are getting close). And that's what I live for... Have no idea if any of it applies to you... but hope it helps to some small degree.