I am quietly retiring from my organization. It hasn't been good at all for the last several months. I refuse to bow down to someone so dense and disrespectful. So, I'm wrapping it up. I have some paperwork left to sign but it is all in place. Just need to turn in my badges. I don't have the tolerance anymore to explain (to the manager of the department) what our department does and the professional requirements and national standards that have to be met to a dolt that can't form a sentence. Then for her to do a "copy and paste" of my work and pass it off as her own. So I guess she is good at plagiarism? Everyone has a skill is what I have always believed.
I met with my investment guy, ran the exact numbers and I am making the same retired, as I am on my reduced hours. (That was a thing that happened too - do more things in less time, and why aren't you done? and here's another thing for you to do and now explain it to "duh face" 11 times so that she can copy and paste it and present it like she did all of the work.) I don't need to be Einstein to figure that one out.
Had the situation been better I would have worked until xmas and then trained my replacement. That isn't how it happened. (Insert little shrug and a too bad so sad look here) I can retire when I want. 😊I have heard that "duh face" has been having troubles. Oh dear. (Insert the same shrug and face here)
So many people have asked with the shocked voice "What are you going to do?!?"
My response has been - "Whatever I want."
I have been working since I was a child. I had to help on the farm, my holidays, weekends and evenings were spent driving trucks (yes, well before age 12), cleaning the shop, shoveling wheat, mowing the farm site, picking rocks, hauling and carrying everything that was way too heavy for a little girl to carry, but I had to do it anyways. I filled in for my Mom at her job since I was 12 and was not paid a dime for anything. I babysat, I worked full time every summer from the time I was 14 years old. I'm done. I'm tired, I'm done.
The other day I was sleepy. So I went and laid down and had a nap! My yard looks wonderful, I putter around and when I'm tired I rest. I don't have to finish 7 days of work in 2. My fridge is clean. My eyes don't have bags under them. I don't have the feeling of dread/puke before Monday. My back still hurts but I can put some heat or ice on it, or have a bath, whichever option suits me at the time. I have so many home projects that I am looking forward to as I don't have to rush and do things on my days off. I go for a walk every day. I bought a new computer and I am learning about it every day. Not feeling rushed.
Money wise I am not rich, but I am comfortable. I have a lot of savings and I will likely start pulling out my RRSP's in the next couple of years to add to my monthly pension amount. Only doing so to take my yearly income right up and under the tax bracket. Then I will reinvest the withdrawals. I don't need to use any of the money to live, but I will shuffle it around.
I will be free to babysit whenever needed. I want to take a tai chi class, I want to volunteer. I want to read more books. I want to do whatever I want.
Things that suck:
smoke and more smoke in the air
my parental units
Things that are great:
Just about everything else!
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