I think about this evey time is see the OMY (one more year) acronym.
I am in a very fortunate position, so this is not a complaint, but an issue I am struggling with. A number of years ago, after I got through a multi-year lawsuit and could finally begin to plan concretely for retirement, I figured Husband and I could retire in 2019. As I refined the plan further, I was able to reel that back to 2018 and then 2017 (not complaining….) About a year ago I took an exciting new job, and felt that I was making a minimum two-year commitment to the organization and my staff. Last summer, the plan improved, so that I was able to tell a happy husband that we could retire in June 2016 when I am 50 and he is 51. So this is my last job. He has just started a new job with his employer, and feels he has made a one-year commitment, but this will also be his last job.
But now, as I refine the plan even further, I realize that those commitments are the only things keeping us in our jobs. Financially, we don’t have to be working anymore (really not complaining….)
Neither of us has to care anymore about career development, or thinking about our next jobs, or about performance plans. Frankly, if our employers asked us to leave, I think we would both be quite relieved. But we are both professionals, and are not interested in slacking off or trying to get fired. Not our style.
Nonetheless, we are both struggling to keep caring, to continuing delivering in the way we are accustomed to in our careers. Because in the words of Bill Murray in Meatballs, “it just doesn’t matter”. I am doing my best, and doing what I can to mentor my staff and colleagues who are going to be here longer, but I don’t have the passion that I used to.
Anyone else in this enviable situation (not complaining…)? Any thoughts to share on this?
I am in a very fortunate position, so this is not a complaint, but an issue I am struggling with. A number of years ago, after I got through a multi-year lawsuit and could finally begin to plan concretely for retirement, I figured Husband and I could retire in 2019. As I refined the plan further, I was able to reel that back to 2018 and then 2017 (not complaining….) About a year ago I took an exciting new job, and felt that I was making a minimum two-year commitment to the organization and my staff. Last summer, the plan improved, so that I was able to tell a happy husband that we could retire in June 2016 when I am 50 and he is 51. So this is my last job. He has just started a new job with his employer, and feels he has made a one-year commitment, but this will also be his last job.
But now, as I refine the plan even further, I realize that those commitments are the only things keeping us in our jobs. Financially, we don’t have to be working anymore (really not complaining….)
Neither of us has to care anymore about career development, or thinking about our next jobs, or about performance plans. Frankly, if our employers asked us to leave, I think we would both be quite relieved. But we are both professionals, and are not interested in slacking off or trying to get fired. Not our style.
Nonetheless, we are both struggling to keep caring, to continuing delivering in the way we are accustomed to in our careers. Because in the words of Bill Murray in Meatballs, “it just doesn’t matter”. I am doing my best, and doing what I can to mentor my staff and colleagues who are going to be here longer, but I don’t have the passion that I used to.
Anyone else in this enviable situation (not complaining…)? Any thoughts to share on this?
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