Tag: ten

Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

By then I will be well into my 60s marching on quickly to my 70s. I sincerely hope I am well settled in retirement by then, ten years is a long time and a lot can happen along the way so I must admit I do have some trepidation regarding this.

Hopefully All those I love will be with me around that time but I do suspect one or two may fall along the way, who knows it may even be me! Looking on the bright side, I would love to be living in a nice warm country so I very much suspect that if I want this, I’m not going to be living in the UK.

Work is becoming quite a bind. We have a new manager and he is going through our entire team one by one and gradually wearing them all down. Work is not a place of enjoyment anymore. I don’t mean enjoyment in the playful sense I mean enjoyment in the fact that i have a lot of colleagues who I really respect and enjoy working with, in our eyes we are a fantastic team. We get things done, with little bother or worry for the management team. We self manage and we think we do it quite well but this guy seems to think he knows it all, he doesn’t and he’s fragmenting our team making it bad for all and spreading bad feeling.

I just really really want to be retired by then I’m kind of hoping I’ll be retired in the next two to three years and I’m really looking forward to that. I’ve worked hard all my life as have other members of my family and I think it’s the least we deserve to take our foot off of the gas and slow ourselves down a little. We can do what we want to do, whether that be travelling, hobbies or just taking our time with things, that’s what I’m looking forward to the most. It won’t be the same if I haven’t got those I love around me and I’ve said that this question brings trepidation into my sights, but the future comes whether we like it or not and we have to handle it as best as we can, so I guess the only thing I can do is prepare myself for this period of my life.

I must look forward and try not to be too worried about things. We all work hard to achieve things in life but we can’t go on at that pace for ever. We’ve earned the right to take it easy and we must allow the younger generations to take the reins, whatever we think of their attitudes and decisions, its progress however you view it.

Have a really good day, stay safe.