But What Now?

My sweetie, who took an early out retirement at age 50, has been retired since 2001, and now a very good friend who has been a co-worker for the past 7 years is also retiring. I am jealous!

Ok, I’m happy for both of them and I know that my retirement date will arrive in a little over a year. For the next year I have to continue to put up with the bureaucratic bull crap and poor leadership. I will continue to do the best job that I can considering the environment I work in, but I’m surely not happy there.

My sweetie left a job in the same large organization and after 2 years of being retired opened her own business. She loves what she does now. My friend doesn’t have imminent plans, but he can’t wait to leave the job. He and I both love “doing” the technology, but we’ve both been put into managerial roles and we both hate it. The people we work for could care less about how either one of us feel about it, though. Instead, we’re just leaving as soon as we can.

In the meantime, while I’m “waiting” to retire, I have decided to take web design classes and photoshop classes and if I actually have time, a photography class. I have a feeling that this year is going to fly by. And when my retirement date arrives, I will be grateful for my newfound time to do the things I really want to do. Instead of taking orders from an unsupportive boss, I will follow my own bliss and my own schedule. It’s almost too much to imagine right now.

But imagine I do, and imagining is creating a new reality that will soon be mine.