No help to you finding a new direction, but if you do, then please try to restrain yourself from going on about all the wonderful places you’ve been to and the great bands you worked with. Those guys in the canteen who spent the last ten years of their lives delivering Sunny D really don’t want to know. The problem is, that even if every word is true, it sounds like bull excrement.
Ex-army guys have the same problem, although in their case it probably is bull.