I Didn’t Retire
Woman in the Middle | March 12, 2015I heard it again last night. “I heard you retired a while back.”
While I wish I was independently wealthy and could retire in my early 50s, I am not. I mean, I am not either retired or independently wealthy.
You see, I was driving a far distance so I could earn half of what I should have been earning and was dealing with a dysfunctional work place that was driving me insane. Meanwhile, on the home front,, there were things that needed to be dealt with. Someone needed to deal with them, and me, the underpaid commuter who was beginning to loathe her work place, that someone would be me.
In the last year, I have not gotten done nearly all I should have, but I finished the first draft of a new book, I researched and wrote 24 columns on local history for our area’s newspaper, and even more columns for our local weekly paper. I became involved in two more organizations in my community and somehow irritated three city council people enough that they voted to kick me off the planning commission. Gosh, I have been busy!
The stuff on the home front is coming along, although never as fast as it should. I have just started, as of yesterday, to look for more gainful employment, because I sure am not making big bucks off this here blog. (I am not making anything, FYI.) The last year has not been a retirement, it has been a pause. I guess it is time to hit the pause button once again and get on with the rest of life, or should I say the rest of the working life. Our check book would be forever grateful!
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