Retired

Today, everything has changed yet it has all stayed the same. This is my first day of retirement yet life goes on around me. The sun has come out and all is good with the world. As if!

I’ve still got plenty to do but there are no emails to reply to and no tasks  to be completed, my infamous spreadsheet has decreased to near zero . I have come off Slack and signed out of our WhatsApp group. I have resigned as a director of CyberNorth and made my own company, Guerrilla Working, dormant. There is still some tidying up ahead but that is it, I am officially an old age pensioner.

This is a day that I never thought would happen. A few years ago I dreaded the prospect of being out of work and having ‘nothing’ to do yet with some support and careful planning that is all behind me now. Ahead is a new future, filled with wonderful things to do, get involved in and learn. It’s not the end but the start of something new.

I know it’s still very early days yet it all feels a little strange. Apart from my several obsessions, including blogging and Duolingo, I can set my own timetable yet I get the strange feeling that I should be doing something off my to do list.

So many people have been so nice to me during the whole process. I find it hard to take such positive comments and find myself repeating the well worn phrase, ‘It was never about me’. Danielle said to me, however, that if people want to say nice things about me then I should take it. I’ve said thank you a lot of times.

I’m wondering what to do with this blog, as it has been predominantly about my work experiences. I have many things still to say but perhaps I can broaden out to cover things I get up to now I have left my labours behind. Let’s see.

Retirement is good so far. Getting money to do what you like is among the greatest luxuries in life.

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