I have more of a work to live than a live to work attitude nowadays, life isn’t a race to see who gets to the finish line first?
3 months after she retired she was approached by an old colleague to do some consulting work on a minimum 2 year contract, at a rate of £1k a day……….she turned it down. I was gutted
Agreed. I couldn’t believe it but she said she’d got out of the habit of working, didn’t want or need the pressure and didn’t want to be at the beck and call of the client……she used to be “a client” and knew exactly what pressure she’d be under. I was still gutted. ps. For those interested it was to work on this project - https://aboutmanchester.co.uk/demol...make-way-for-multi-million-pound-interchange/
Uncertainty of what exactly ? What COVID restrictions are you talking about ? You could have easily gone traveling around the world in Dec 2020 as well as Dec 2021. I get that your mate died from Cancer, that's sad, but, c'mon it was 3 years ago time to move on, life is carrying on.
Life does move on and the point I was making is don’t wait! And I don’t think the options to travel were really a sensible choice for the last couple of years, did you not hear about that thing called Covid? We spent 2 months in Australia and NZ at the end of 2019, that holiday would be impossible even now. We had three other trips postponed in the last 2 years as well. We were lucky to be able to get a trip in before Christmas and also visited Scotland so I haven’t been sitting around worrying about everything but it doesn’t make feelings of doubt and unease vanish. The current conflict is horrible and disturbing, but perhaps you think we should all just ignore it? Uncertainty - who knows where this will lead and the consequences for the rest of the world? I’m not stopping planning though and have already booked more trips for later this year.
It’s about time some investment was pumped in to Stockport Like a lot of satellite towns it’s had the life sucked out of it by its bigger neighbour for far too long.
"The current conflict is horrible and disturbing, but perhaps you think we should all just ignore it?" quote from @Twin4me only picking out one point here, ^ I thoroughly agree with this, and no, we shouldn't just ignore it, and in a FREE world we are still allowed to express all of the above, without having to explain, apologise or feel guilty about saying it out loud.
Hi @panibadboy I am being genuine when I ask you, so what good and what "certainty" lies ahead in the Ukraine and Russia? has Putin done the right thing by you? I know this is off-topic so please tell me in a p.m. or on the Putin thread if you can.
Please don’t let this fall into a political whirlpool, this was not my intention. I accept people will have different opionions about politics and personal choice/freedoms
it won't - reply will be in other thread or p.m. (as what I wrote above). and to be fair, from your first post... :- "All this doom and gloom about the war in Ukraine is depressing"
I like this Sounds like your enjoying what you plan I also understand unease with situations Some of them are out of our control but we can support by donating whatever way we can. Death and the end of living can be uneasy too. It just is for some people you can't snap out of it. The only time is when you are faced with death then something changes, your thoughts change as does your priorities and somehow the unease settles from my experience We can only control ourselves our thoughts we have no control over the world.
Easily done to nuke a post accidentally if you’re on an iPad or phone, best not to get too hung up on the emoji responses to posts IMO.
Point taken chaps, easily done as I’ve done it myself but then rectified it. I won’t get hung up on it.
