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Here's my winter hack and one of my routes home.
Fortunately my job has always been officially working from home; I used to go in 2 - 3 times a week; hopefully that will be less now.
Just hang on in there and the day will come. I never liked work, despite being extremely good at what I did, and I chose to live well within my means for decades with the express intention of retiring at the earliest opportunity. I did retire in Jan 2020 and, despite the joys of the pandemic, it has been the best thing that I ever did. At my retirement party I remember my boss telling me that I was going to ‘miss all this’ but I was confident that I wouldn’t, and I was right. Not having that sinking feeling on a Sunday evening, when you know that you have to go back to work tomorrow, is priceless.
The other big thing was not being able to reprioritize personal vs work tasks on the fly during the day, safe in the knowledge that no one will get grumpy if you walk the dog now when it's dry and sunny, and do that report at 6pm when it's dark, for example
there will always be a current brand and model popular with people who want to project a boy racer image. Last I heard it was Audi, and a lot of longer term Audi drivers were shying away from the brand.
However, even then I can't say I've ever noticed one brand of cars having noticeably worse drivers
Thankfully, the company I'm starting in April with will only be opening all offices Worldwide from at least January 2022; and even then, my new manager only wants her team in 2 days a week.
Downside is it's central London near Liverpool Street. I've done the commute before, and it was a 5 hour round-trip.... but I'm thinking I could stay overnight in a Premier Inn Hub for example. Then use the night I'm there to get to know the team.
But yeah, I HATE any commute. Just infuriates me as it's a waste of time!
I had to drive into Wolverhampton for something to do with my late mother on Tuesday and my brother and sister in law came. They've been retired in their house in the country since last March and mostly relied on Tesco deliveries. They were quite freaked out by the journey, they just thought everyone else ( apart from Tesco drivers apparently) were mostly still staying at home. It was proper busy traffic.
so I have a role I could pretty much do from home 80% of the week but my client “pays for me to be here 5 days” and that’s what he wants.
so rather than me being sat at home pulling data from spreadsheets to provide technical advice and reports I’m sat in an office in my own building all alone pulling data from spreadsheets.
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With the cost of a train from York to London every day, I'd just take a lower paid job closer to home and have a more balanced lifestyle.
Am I a different person if I'm driving my Beemer or my Megane Scenic (or my Lotus)?
Clients pay the fares
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