I quit medicine to surf. It made me miserable.

I quit medicine to build a life around surfing. Remote work, spontaneous swell trips, twenty days at the coast whenever I wanted them. But when I finally cashed all of that in on a surf trip to Peniche, Portugal—I was miserable. This is the story of what I got wrong about it, what it took me years to understand about why the "dream setup" wasn't enough, and how I ended up building a version of work-and-life that actually holds together. If you're standing at your own version of that decision. Hating your work, and loving the thing you'd rather be doing, thinking the answer is to quit and rearrange everything around the thing you love—this one is for you. — Chapters: 0:00 - A special kind of misery 0:34 - Why do I feel so bad? 1:08 - How I got there 1:31 - Surfing took over my life 2:02 - So I left medicine 2:39 - To take a job in online marketing 2:51 - And booked a dreamy surf trip 3:03 - What it actually felt like 3:29 - But I was miserable 4:28 - The meaningless work, made surfing meaningless as well 5:06 - Falling completely apart 5:59 - So what was wrong? 6:16 - What I had right & wrong 6:46 - So I quit again 7:23 - So if you are about to make a decision... — Find me on Socials Instagram:   / chris.genau   TikTok:   / chris.genau   LinkedIn:   / chrisgenau   — 🎥 Links to my Videos 🎥 Personal & Story 🌊 The Comeback Video -    • I Quit YouTube For 5 Years. Here's Why Mos...   Surfskate 🌊🛹 Frontside Bowl Flow and Video Analysis -    • Frontside Bowl Flow Tutorial | Analyzing "...   How to do a Backside Kickturn on your Surfskate -    • How to do a backside Kickturn on your Surf...   Your Surfskate Is Lying To You (3 Stance Mistakes) -    • Your Surfskate Is Lying To You (3 Stance M...   How to Skate a Pumptrack -    • How to Skate a pump track   How to Frontside Snap with Video Analysis —    • How to Frontside Snap with Video Analysis ...   Surfskate Video Speed Generation -    • How to pump a Surfskate with actual surfin...   Surfskate Video Re-Entry -    • How to do a Frontside Re-entry (Kickturn)   — 🎵 Music 🎵 "Not There Yet" — Evan Honer "Too Far Gone" — Evan Honer "It's A Home" — Evan Honer "Discovery" — Makeup and Vanity Set (Musicbed) "stellar reflections" — Under the Stars (Musicbed) #landlockedsurfer #surflife #personalessay #videoessay #medicine #careerchange #quitmyjob #surftrip #peniche #portugalsurf #chrisgenau #storytelling #minidocumentary #surfculture #lifechange