On Wed, 22 Apr 2015 18:28:17 +0100, MM wrote:
On Wed, 22 Apr 2015 12:35:28 +0100, tony sayer
wrote:
In article , MM
scribeth thus
On 21 Apr 2015 09:13:48 GMT, Bob Eager wrote:
On Tue, 21 Apr 2015 02:28:21 +0100, MM wrote:
Ah! I'm retired. I wouldn't work now if you paid me! After 44 years
of grafting I reckon I've had enough of work. Besides, I have so
many hobbies, including DIY, I could never find the time for
working.
I'm looking forward to this.
I'm really enjoying doing what the heck I like when I like without
all the stress of office politics in an environment where I was
treated like a granddad as the oldest staff member. Heck, I was
older than my managers!
I'm older than nearly everyone; the problem is the incompetence of
management. What this means is that other people invent silly rules,
and he (being weak) just agrees. It gets really annoying sometimes.
Two things really ****ed me off: annual appraisals, and meetings.
Especially the latter made all the junior management feel so
self-important and they had meetings all the ruddy time. I never wanted
to become a manager, but preferred to work on my projects (computer
programmer), which was far more interesting than organising people.
I've never had a lot of time for managers, I'm afraid.
MM
All that is the main reason I packed up working for someone else 30
years ago and although its not the easiest occupation running your own
business its much less stressful in so many ways oddly enough as you are
more in control of it.
Never looked back and still like what I'm doing, OK some days can be a
PITA but thats life!...
Can't be arsed to retire, sounds like getting olde and boring!..
But you WILL retire eventually and you'll need some hobbies! Else life
WILL be very boring.
I have all these things I don't have time for, so that won't be a
problem. And there is a load of voluntary stuff (I'm chair of the local
BCS branch).
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