From yesterday's discussion, children leaving the nest are not the only thing that is probably going to change in the next few years. What I am doing will probably change as well.
As super blessed as I have been in my current job, the reality is that at some point, that job is going away - through a buyout, through a bankruptcy, through a "We are looking to succeed and you no longer fit the position...". It is coming. And it is the after that which is interesting.
There is simply not enough of what I do here where we currently live that I can expect to find a position, and because of my promotion and expansion of job duties, I have become less employable than ever as there is not a one-for-one transition between this position and other positions of similar titles (and the very real fact that I am in my "middle years", which often raises employment questions). In point of fact, it is almost a certainty that I, at least, will have to relocate.
That is a hard thing to plan for, in case you are wondering: preparing for a job transition that is probably coming (but maybe not) with no idea what the market will look like or what the positions will be .
And always, the sense that I really, really, want to go home and finally do the agricultural things I have wanted to do for 25 years.
Life is not that clean, of course. You usually cannot back your way into something; rather, you have to out and get it. Which is hard, given the uncertainty of what the future looks like.
But this much I know: I badly want to go home and shed so much of this world. I just need to start finding a way to make that happen.
Farmers markets are a way to make a living, should you want to.
ReplyDeleteMoving in the military was always hard for me. Only difference is I usually knew what I would be doing.
I say make your plan the one you want.
Well good luck and amen, TB. Life starts looking a lot different at our age, and I get how you are getting fed up with this world and its antics. I just look at the happenings and the people pushing them and wonder: haven't you got anything better to do?
ReplyDeleteLinda - that is very good advice indeed. I do indeed need to make the plan I want - but then I have to have to courage to execute it.
ReplyDeleteGlen, I think the rather sad part is that for many of these folks, they really do have nothing better to do.
ReplyDeleteYour last paragraph really strikes a chord. Change is always difficult, especially when it requires the faith to jump off a cliff. I am going to say, however, that it's worth it.
ReplyDeleteLeigh, I keep feeling myself edging up to the cliff. I suspect it will not be so much of a leap as a fall...
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