What to do, what to do...?

So, the latest phase of my mid-life crisis has hit, and it's big.  Between the politics at work, and the fact that I can no longer tolerate my manager's immediate boss (who attempts to micro-manage my entire group every second of every day) I don't think I want to stay where I am anymore.  Heck, I don't even think I want to stay in the industry!  For the past 12 years or so, I have been in the IT field in some capacity or another.  I started out doing helpdesk support, and rapidly moved on through the desktop realm and into server/network administration.  While I enjoyed solving those problems, my latest leap (in July of 2007) has left me cold.  It started out nice, but in December we had a re-org that I have not fully recovered from.  Couple that with the failures in my personal life, and I need change... I need big change, and I need it yesterday.  Seeing as how I've been pigeonholed in my career for the past decade, I don't fit the bill for any non-IT positions of a lucrative nature.  I've already resigned myself to the "money didn't buy happiness" realm, and I'm ready to take a good-sized cut wherever I end up.  I recently connected with a few high-school buddies via Facebook, and one of them gave me some information on an opportunity... but it's direct buying marketing of a sort... and I can't be a "salesman" unless I'm making the product, or if I "am" the product (more on that in a bit... and don't get smug, I'm not about to live the life of a craigslist escort!)  I think I want to try my hand in the service industry at some level.  There's no way I could wait tables (my eidetic memory works in mysterious ways... I don't memorize lists that quickly, but I can whistle the theme song to any cartoon I've seen since I was six...) but I could be a host... or an assistant manager... or a short order cook.   All of the cooks I know are telling me not to even think about it, because the job is horrible, but I think I need the exact opposite of what I have now.  Sitting around in what appears to be air-conditioned comfort, but silently suffering and being absolutely miserable isn't where I want to be.  I'd love to be a chocolatier (or even an assistant candy maker in some semi-popular local shop.)  I'm also in the middle of training with VoiceCoaches.com.  While I can't necessarily be the "guy next door" voice for advertising... I can do a darned good narrative.  I do a lot of crazy voices, celebrity impressions, and I can do a dead-on Don LaFontaine (but so can a lot of people in the business!)   I don't know where it will lead me, but I've made the effort, and I'm going to find out.  Hmm... perhaps I should re-title this blog... "Mis-adventures of a failure at 40" has a nice ring to it.