<human>: I'm feeling a little lost and could use some advise. A little back history: My SO and I have been together for about 7 years, he's 30 & I'm 26. We moved away from our families early on in our relationship in order to pursue an education and career. We actually have been very successful, he earned his bachelors degree and I only have a couple years left until I complete mine. We have a house in the suburbs (no children) and have careers where we make enough money to be comfortable. We originally set out to accomplish all the things that we associated with being successful and we have reached our original goal relatively earlier than we expected to. It all sounds great and like we should be happy, but we've both realized recently we're both really unhappy. We have even evenly started questioning our relationship, which I previously thought was rock solid.
The problem is we don't know what about our current situation is making us unhappy and how to even begin figuring out what needs to change. The corporate grind is soul sucking and having a house makes me feel more trapped than successful. The previous goal was to eventually open our own business one day. But after working for smal companies, that's not all its cut out to be either, you still spend the majority of your time working. And it's not like you can just not work, people need at least some money to survive. I've been broke before and that's very stressful and not a fun life. So what else is there?

So my first question: is life just like this? Is the majority of life just spent working and generally crappy? and the only really happiness is the occasions in between work and sleep when you get to do what you want? If so, are there ways to try to maximize the amount of time you get doing what you want?

Second question: if there is more to life, how do you start figuring out what it is that needs changed in your life? How do you determine what it is that will make you happier?

Could you distill the essence of the text into 1-3 sentences?
<bot>: I've accomplished all the goals I set out to accomplish and am still unhappy. How do you determine what needs to be changed in your life to be happier or does life just generally suck the majority of the time?