I am reading 2 books at the same time. One is by my bedside and the other by my chair in the living room. Both are helping me to achieve some sort of peace of mind right now. They are both by Ernie Zelinski and I wholeheartedly recommend both.
I am so ready for retirement, it is painful to go to work every day and put up with the petty office politics, mindless reactions to human nature and pressure from those above me who are so pressured I’m not sure how they’ll make it another 10 years or more.
Some people cannot fathom not having a job. I am not one of them. At this point I am considering therapy to make it through the rest of my days working at this tedious job. I am surrounded by dissatisfied people, including those who, like me, used to enjoy their jobs. It’s just not fun anymore.
As of today, I have 444 days left before my first possible opportunity for retirement. I am too close to just chuck it all tomorrow and tell these fools that I am through. There are benefits I would lose. There was a time I enjoyed my job, but what was once a place where I felt a technical camaraderie with peers is now a place so full of administrative hurdles and hassles that I don’t know how I’m going to make it through another year without being fired.
If you are retired now or thinking about retiring someday, if you are not even close to retirement but are not happy with your current job, if you think you can never retire because you’ll be bored to tears… You must read these books.
The Joy of Not Working: A Book for the Retired, Unemployed and Overworked- 21st Century Edition
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