I have various different part-time jobs that add up to a quasi-living - I'm not full-time in one job. And my hours, depending on the day/week, usually go off-and-on from morning through night. So, my feelings can sometimes change from day-to-day/evening-to-evening/job-to-job -- but in some ways, that can make it all interesting. And, fortunately, I enjoy all the jobs and they are in fields I enjoy. (Not literal fields with grass, ha! But fields of 'grass' sound good to me at the moment, ha!) And I work every weekend of the year. :)
I am retired 2.5 years now, but I remember very clearly near the end of my employment the knots in my stomach, because I knew wage statements were waiting for me at my desk ( I was a work comp. rep). I remember not even enjoying the entire weekend, because by Sunday that knot always returned. It was awful. It wasn't always that way for me, just the last 3 or 4 years prior to my splitting from that hell hole.
Awful most of the time -specially when I worked as a rail yard switchman in Winnipeg during the winter and called off the spareboard for a midnight shift -i'd be all nice and drowsy ready to hit the sack and then have to go work outside where it's minus 20 or 30F switching rail cars around.
Another day, another euro/dollar is my feeling. I am luckier than most in that I do not have to work, I could pull the plug any day w/o a great financial loss. I do what I do because I like my job, also I have a great contract. I work under EU rules not American rules so...... I ma better off than most.
Doc and myself are waiting until her legal contract with Austria is complete in a short while, then we are pulling the plug
I always enjoyed my work. I was just exhausted the years I went to school in the evenings and worked during the day, both full time. So work wasn't the problem; I was just so tired some days a fire could not have made me wake and dress. But, like all hellacious periods, it came to a welcomed end. When I took early retirement I walked away and never looked back. I have never worked for anyone since.
This post was edited by Thriftymaid at February 15, 2019 4:43 AM MST
