The last few years have been so strange.
And what makes it so much weirder is the fact that the 30 years prior had gone so according to plan.
That just shows you. We can all plan and plan but often, so much of our actual lives are very much out of control. Thinking like that was simply unheard of for me before what happened to my career. I made plans, executed those plans and then made more plans. This went really well for me for decades. That is until I was thrown from my oak paneled, HVAC cooled office onto my butt. It happens that fast. I had heard about this happening to older colleagues of mine. But, it would never happen to me because I was so much more valuable to the company than they were. Wrong, none of us are irreplaceable. I don’t care who you are, if you work for a company, watch your back as you enter your fifties. It was swift and very painful, my getting jettisoned more than a decade before my career plan was complete. I reeled a bit and then decided to at least attempt to use my skills to make some money. One of our guest bedrooms had turned into the proverbial junk room. So, I simply cleared it out one weekend and got to putting in my new office. This office isn’t near as fancy as the one I occupied for many, many years. In fact, it was awful to work in for the first few weeks. That is until I made my first business expenditure and had a mini split ductless heating and cooling system put in. It’s a step forward at least.