Now that I’ve retired from traditional work I have to face up to the fact that for the next 10 years I’m living off a fixed lump sum and thereafter living off a pension who’s value waxes and wanes with the vagaries of the stock market. Although I’ve lived for...
The main reason that I decided to retire was that work had stopped being fun. For over three decades I’d loved my work, it provided me with friends, status, accomplishment and lot’s of laughs and excitement, but gradually that changed. Conference calls replaced face to face interactions, strangers replaced friends,...
This post is part of a series reflecting on the end of my traditional working life as I prepare for retirement this week. This is a difficult post to write, I’ve been in paid work in some form or another for over 40 years, 30 years in traditional employment and...
This post is part of a series reflecting on the end of my traditional working life as I prepare for retirement this week. I’m resigning and retiring tomorrow, so this post is part of a series reflecting on the end of my traditional working life. It’s a perfect time to...
This post is part of a series reflecting on the end of my traditional working life as I prepare for retirement this week. I’ve just started to read the classic Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and it opens with a description of the people who shaped his life. It struck me...
This post is part of a series reflecting on the end of my traditional working life as I prepare for retirement this week. I’m 52 this year which many might consider a bit young to retire and it’s not like I didn’t have other options, but in the end I...
For most of my working life I’ve used the same IT for work and personal use. This might seem a bit strange to some people but it’s not for me, work and personal life have always been a blended experience for me. I’ve always travelled a lot with work and...
This is the last in my series of posts looking back at my first few blog posts. This Ninth post is notable only because of the software that I used to use and really like 11 years ago, the only app that I still use is Office, although it’s now...
This is the Eighth in my series of posts looking back on my first 10 blog posts. This is the first blog post I’ve ever written that gets into a topic that’s dominated my working life – how to help people get more done and enjoy doing it. Over the...
This is the Seventh in my series of posts looking back on my first 10 blog posts. This post describes a problem that’s thankfully been solved in my life: I have 2 pocket PC’s, a Blackberry and a Tablet, all of them play music but I also have a Creative...