whining (for a long time) about career decisions

I've been contemplating changing my career path for several months. About 2 weeks ago I decided to just get with it and start applying to stuff like crazy - like I need a job instead of just when the mood strikes (which I've always done on and off).

This is partially prompted, I'm sure, by the fact I turn 30 in less than 4 months. It's partially just my boredom. It's partially the fact I need to be more creative and get to use my brain more in my daily life. It's partially because I'm in a mood to really take charge of life and make life as awesome as it seemed when I was 17. It's partially because the only career I could ever picture myself in was as a performing musician - and what it comes down to is that is really it for me.

Sure, I'm playing in a band and maybe have another one in the works. But that's the one thing I'm supposed to be doing. I think I can live with just doing it "for fun" if I could just have a job that didn't drain me of energy for stupid reasons and let me stretch my skills.

I've been with my current company for a little more than seven years. And while I've moved up and taken on more responsibilities, I still spend a good portion of my day doing the same stuff I did on day one. Since I get bored easily, this means I'm pretty bored with my job.

There's one position I will probably never hear from, because they are one of those companies that are impossible to get into, but I'd love, love, love the job. It's basically editing educational materials.

There's another that I'm sort of into, internal communications stuff. And a few others that are combinations of internal communications, training, and writing training materials.

Then yesterday I found out I (and several of my cohorts) are accepted to go to a training program through my company. And today I find out that I have until tomorrow end-of-business-day to apply for a promotion. And while some of the promotion would be new stuff, and it would pay just a fraction more, I'd still be doing a lot of the stuff I did on my first day.

So I'm going to apply for the internal thing, but keep applying to other stuff that sounds more like what I might want as a career.

I hope I get something new and fun out of this. I really do want that "life is awesome and the future is here and now but there's so much more ahead of me and it's going to toally rock" (TM) feeling back.