I am mid-way through handing over my workload and all is going well. I am now working from home and only working when queries arise - this is forcing people to take over my work and make sure they can cope when I formally leave on 14 Nov 2012. I do not want phone calls after I have gone as I want to move on to my new phase in life. This cartoon sums up why I am choosing semi-retirement - you need to stop before it's too late 'cos we don't want to end up like this!
I do have a small amount of other work that I will continue with for the foreseeable future but that tends to quieten down over winter so it is likely that, from now on, I will have very little work until sometime next year. As yet I have had no difficulty filling my day but I have not yet had a week with no work to do. It will be interesting to see at what point I wake up and think 'what on earth am I going to do today?'
I have a list as long as my arm of things I want to do including....
- loads more cooking
- getting back to tracking my family tree and putting it into a format that can be handed on to the next generation
- having a go at writing a short story or, maybe, a book
- more exercise.....Lucy will make sure I get some
- getting to know some of my neighbours better - those that I meet dog walking or that are my sort of age
- sprucing up the house and garden - these have been neglected a bit in recent years
It will be interesting to see how many of these I do and whether I get side-tracked into other ventures. In the longer term, once Rod has retired, I hope we can have more holidays away...mainly self-catering for a change of scenery but also, perhaps, some more travel abroad.
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