Mortgage free in Forever Home :-)

KajiKita

penny_less said:

That definitely deserves a drumroll-well done!

Thank you 😊 
I know it’s a bit silly, but it has been crammed with stuff I don’t wear for aaaages and has been genuinely bugging me! I have put a big bag of stuff in the bin and put half again in a bag for charity (including some bras with the tags still on and packs of tights that I will never wear again - hate tights!). 

Feels really good to have got decluttering started for the weekend 😊

KK

beanielou

Woohoo   

savingholmes

Well done on the decluttering and the CS donations.

KajiKita

Woken up, yet again, feeling sickly (more cold symptoms). Getting really fed up with this - every time I have a break (week off or weekend) I am getting sick. I was talking to Mr KK last night about the interview next week / possible new job. He’s wondering, and I think he’s probably right, that I will regret leaving just as I am starting to gain traction on so many things I have worked so long to improve. Otoh, I don’t know if I can actually live like this, when there is so little of me left to exist in the cracks around work …. Ho hum. 

If I can pull myself together this morning, I am hoping to clear the runner bean bed and the greenhouse of the dead tomatoes. I will also sow some broad bean seeds to plant out in the runner bean bed in c. 4 weeks. 

More decluttering and clearing of ‘stuff’ will happen. Not much relaxation today as we have the plumber coming to set up the new lounge radiator, jeremy will be helping him and also doing more filling / ‘plastering’. Tomorrow will be a rest day though 😊

KK

South_coast

KajiKita said:

I was talking to Mr KK last night about the interview next week / possible new job. He’s wondering, and I think he’s probably right, that I will regret leaving just as I am starting to gain traction on so many things I have worked so long to improve. Otoh, I don’t know if I can actually live like this, when there is so little of me left to exist in the cracks around work …. Ho hum. 

I think you need to ask yourself whether you live to work or work to live. Both are equally valid stances at various points in our lives and careers, but which is the right one for you right now?

Hope you feel a bit perkier later x

beanielou

Take care of yourself. 

savingholmes

It sounds like the job is taking a lot out of you. Only you can guage if that is about to improve or not.

Cheery_Daff

Could you give yourself a cutoff in your current job to see if it starts feeling better - say 6 months? No point putting up with it forever if, as you say, you're existing between the cracks, that doesn't sound fun 😕

redofromstart

'If you could wave a magic wand and make it go away, would you'? 

If you could swap current job for one on the same money, would you? I wouldn't, other than in the sense that I'd rather not be working at all.

KajiKita

Thanks @SouthCoast, @beanielou, @savingholmes - I’m feeling a bit better after a productive day (I will post about that separately 😊).

@Cheery_Daff, I had given myself a cutoff of next March but this possible job has surfaced a bit early … I had wanted to stay there till I retired but at the current level of demand on me it just wouldn’t be sustainable. I will see how this next winter goes. Reading more has definitely helped this year and if I do more crafting this winter I think that would help too. 

@redofromstart, that’s a really hard question as I am getting some really positive feedback from significant people in the business, I am loving developing my team and we are just in the cusp of doing really good things after months of hard work …. I need the same level of pay but less intensity! (It was striking to me this week that I went on a Teams call with project people from one side of the business and during the chitchat before the meeting proper started, I understood that the very senior person, form the other side of the business, that I was prepping the presentation for all week, was completely unknown to them …. 😳🤷‍♀️)

KK