Stuck in a Rut?

I have been working in TV for 12 years in September this year.  I busted a gut, worked my ass off, late hours, got RSI, the works.  TV is my life.  It has been my life for so long.  But recently I have been feeling a little different about it.


I am less interested about what is happening in the TV world.  I go to work, work my ass off, I go home.  I don't even want to turn the TV on at all.  I don't want to be reminded of work.  I have never felt this way before where I am almost a little repulsed by the stupid box in my front room.


From talking about it with friends, I have figured that maybe I am 'stuck in a rut'.  I know a few people that have been through the same thing.  You work up to a point in your life and then wonder what's next and why you worked to hard to get there in the first place.


I keep myself busy, its not like I am short of things to do but I have this creeping feeling in the pit of my stomach everyday.  I go to sleep with it and wake up with it.  The 'rut' is slowly taking over my life.  From seeing it in other people, I know there is the 'other side' where you come through blinking in the bright light of the new step in your life.....but I am so stuck in it, I am wondering when the bright lights are coming to me.


I don't have a diary, I probably don't 'talk' as much as I should, so I thought I would write it like this to help me understand how I feel about it and might make it clearer for me.


Should I do something completely different (another hobby perhaps) that might take my mind away from the 'rut' enough to see it clearer and therefore see the other side?


Or should I just stay stuck in it for a bit, just wallow in it and let it take over me?  Maybe I will get bored of it and wake up one day and it will all be over? I might think differently about it in a few days perhaps......