14/08/2015 – A week has passed since I behaved against the grain and left my job, yet I haven’t found a minute to write anything for this blog to be, let alone giving it a name and getting it on somewhere in the “bloggy-sphere”. So better put something down now and pretend I am writing a blog.
How did I ever manage to find the time to work? Reality is I am fighting to get paid from the “Be Ruthless” Company; vaguely looking for paid work (bravado won’t pay the bills); in the middle of setting up a new charity and decluttering my study, ‘cause I can’t find anything. With every single one of those goals unfinished, next week is going to be a déjà vu routine.
So what of this “Be Ruthless” Company, to use their “Be…something style” that I felt compelled to walk out of? It’s supposed to have taken on the staff of the Company that employed me until mid-July but had to go into administration; all 5 of us. Only I am the only one that hasn’t quite made it onto their payroll, without as much as a reason, although I did start working (or sitting mostly) in their offices on 27th July. I didn’t just sit because I am lazy, I sat because I was not given the tools I needed to work, mainly access to their Goggle Cloud where it all seems to happen. Continue reading
What now?
09/08/2015 – Strike when the iron is hot they say. Well it couldn’t have been hotter than last Friday when I walked out of my job (more like a phantom job actually) at the uncomfortable age of 59 (& a half). That was not the action of a second wind of careless youth but more that of a too old to suffer fools any more. So what now? Perhaps it’s time to think outside the box ‘cause right now I feel quite liberated. But how do I combine my finance experience & boundless commitment with my love of interior design and my passion for helping kids in Africa? Too weird a mix to work? Who knows. But what I do know is that it would make the last productive years of my life a hell of a ride. I might start with a blog “She got to 60 and thought “I haven’t been me” perhaps?