When I started this blog, neither today nor yesterday, a friend said to me, “There’s an “about” you section? What’s that for? It’s all about you.” And while that is true, the “about ” section remains.
And while this blog is all personal news, I am keeping this title all the same – do you remember that newsreaders used to say that at the end of the news when they were leaving? Well, I am leaving my current employer after nearly ten years in its not entirely warm embrace. Look, it had lots of merits but I feel I have one job left in me and I want it to be a different kind of job. A number of senior colleagues have told me how “brave” I am to move on at this stage of my career; an intervention I really appreciated as you can imagine. I am hoping (obviously, says you) that the new job will be a good fit and – hold your breath here – it is a FOUR DAY WEEK. I am very excited for this.
I finished the old job on Friday and start the new job on Monday (that was slightly poorly planned, I would concede). Wish me luck.
I ca thoroughly recommend the four-day week, which is the fifth best type of week. So maybe shed a few more days when you can.
Is it a radical change of direction or something similar? In any event, the best of luck.
Congratulations and good luck! I hope the four day week is everything you hope it will be!
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Sorry my Samsung phone was meant to send starry eyes and four leaf clover!!
Oh, good luck…and a four day week will be glorious. (I am scaling back work too….semi-retirement, with my somewhat older husband who is already fully retired). Times change…
That is exciting! I hope it goes well. If there were to be a next time, I would say consider taking at least a week off between posts, but hopefully the next transition will be to all of the time off. 🙂
Thank you one and all for your good wishes. Day 1 down and I am feeling optimistic although completely exhausted. Mark, it is somewhat similar but quite different all the same…