The impossible career change... or is it?

This is half frustrated rant, half plea for advice.

As some of you may know, and most of you likely don't, I am the Business Development Manager for a small consumer reporting/court research agency. I like my job. I work with some great people, the company is very loyal, I make decent money and the job isn't boring by any means. In the four years I have been working there, I've doubled my salary and earned the promotion to where I am now. I can't complain.

But if you asked me ten years ago where I would be in 2008, I certainly wouldn't say "Business Development Manager for a small consumer reporting/court research agency."

I have a BA in communication and really thought I was going to end up in media. Radio, television, or ideally pursuing a masters in film. I was out of money when I graduated, so getting a graduate degree from a well-known university was out of the question. I lived just outside the #1 television market in the USA, where there were thousands of other kids like me - I was lucky enough to land a few interviews but not a job. I managed to break into radio for a short time. I loved it until my mentor was fired for no reason, followed by some other great people I worked with. I ended up finding a better-paying opportunity in a different industry and jumped ship before I was a victim of corporate bullshit. That other job gave me a bit of marketing groundwork, which brings me to where I am today.

Got married, bought a house, had a kid, and now I'm pretty much locked in to the status quo I've set for myself. And to be honest, it scares the crap out of me. I keep on feeling like I should be somewhere else. I even use what little free time I have to edit videos for friends, in-laws, even random guys on an Opie and Anthony message board, or to DJ on some shitty internet radio station for free.

I am constantly thinking about how trying to rebuild the future I expected when I graduated college. The media field is the double edged sward cliche- can't get a job without experience, can't get experience without a job. I could possibly get back into radio, entry level, but I was so disenfranchised with my last corporate radio experience that I would only want to work at an independent station, which would mean horrible pay. I need at least what I'm currently earning. I'm an hour and a half from Boston and I would commute if the work was there. But again, good media jobs are few and far between - especially for someone with only a degree and 7 years experience in the wrong field.

Sorry for the long rant. If anyone has been in a similar predicament and was able to get the job they wanted, I'm all ears.

And if you have a production company in the Boston area....... hire me!