All the posts this week will be following a theme. Since this is a positive blog, we will have a positive theme. And that theme is:
UP
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It’s over! Sunday I set the clocks back when daylight savings time ended. I used to look forward to the end of daylight savings time just for that one extra hour of sleep. No more. This year without the rigid schedule of a job, the time change is nothing more than a regulatory quirk. I can ignore it if I choose. Retirement means that I can get up when I want.
This raises a whole new issue. In my working days, getting up was not an option. I was committed to spending 8 hours a day at a location of my employer’s choice and my prime objective each morning was to deliver myself to that location whatever it took. Mostly that meant dragging myself out of bed and showing up at the job site. I didn’t want to get up most days but what I wanted was irrelevant. I didn’t have control. I put the best face on the situation I could. I pretended. I said I liked my job. I said I liked my coworkers. And so for 35 years I got up every morning and went to work. [continue reading…]
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