Okay, so this is just my rant. No need to reply or offer suggestions unless you just want to. Mostly I just need to get this off my chest.
Last October I gave my 60 day notice. They talked me into staying until they can replace me. The replacement has been hired and will start in mid-June. After that, it will take 2 to 6 months to get her up to speed. So I have a goal of retiring by December 31, 2019, at the latest.
But it's really hard to keep my head in the game at this point. Concentrating on my work is difficult for me. All of the little annoyances of the job are even more annoying to me now that I know I don't really have to put up with them at all.
So here's the rub. My partners all know that I want to retire ASAP and that I'm struggling to stay involved and interested on a daily basis. So they're scrutinizing my work more than ever. Clearly they have approved of my work in the past, or they wouldn't have worked so hard to talk me into staying after I gave my notice last October. I appreciate the extra scrutiny, because I really have checked out a little bit. BUT, they are nit picking me to death. We commonly review each other's work to check for mistakes. We notify each other of significant errors that would affect the outcome if they weren't caught and corrected. But we also typically "let slide" those errors which really aren't errors, but just fall into the category of "That's not how I would have done it." Well, they aren't letting those slide anymore. Every few days, someone walks into my office and says "That's not how I would have worded this, so you need to change it." I ask, "Is it incorrect?". "Well, no, but it would be better if you said it like this. I've shown 3 other people and we all agree."
This is draining. Having someone recommend a better way to word something isn't a big deal. But having someone tell you frequently that you need to re-do this or that because they don't like your style is just annoying. I'm already hanging on by a thread to help them out, and they are repaying me by nit picking the work that I'm doing. Every time it happens, the little voice in my head says "Fine, you can do it yourself. I quit." But I bite my tongue and remind myself that it's just a few more months. I can endure the unnecessary criticism for a few more months. Then I have the rest of my life to look back and say "the last few months were kind of annoying, but in the grand scheme of things, it wasn't that bad. I lived and I'm no worse for the wear."
Thanks for listening.
Last October I gave my 60 day notice. They talked me into staying until they can replace me. The replacement has been hired and will start in mid-June. After that, it will take 2 to 6 months to get her up to speed. So I have a goal of retiring by December 31, 2019, at the latest.
But it's really hard to keep my head in the game at this point. Concentrating on my work is difficult for me. All of the little annoyances of the job are even more annoying to me now that I know I don't really have to put up with them at all.
So here's the rub. My partners all know that I want to retire ASAP and that I'm struggling to stay involved and interested on a daily basis. So they're scrutinizing my work more than ever. Clearly they have approved of my work in the past, or they wouldn't have worked so hard to talk me into staying after I gave my notice last October. I appreciate the extra scrutiny, because I really have checked out a little bit. BUT, they are nit picking me to death. We commonly review each other's work to check for mistakes. We notify each other of significant errors that would affect the outcome if they weren't caught and corrected. But we also typically "let slide" those errors which really aren't errors, but just fall into the category of "That's not how I would have done it." Well, they aren't letting those slide anymore. Every few days, someone walks into my office and says "That's not how I would have worded this, so you need to change it." I ask, "Is it incorrect?". "Well, no, but it would be better if you said it like this. I've shown 3 other people and we all agree."
This is draining. Having someone recommend a better way to word something isn't a big deal. But having someone tell you frequently that you need to re-do this or that because they don't like your style is just annoying. I'm already hanging on by a thread to help them out, and they are repaying me by nit picking the work that I'm doing. Every time it happens, the little voice in my head says "Fine, you can do it yourself. I quit." But I bite my tongue and remind myself that it's just a few more months. I can endure the unnecessary criticism for a few more months. Then I have the rest of my life to look back and say "the last few months were kind of annoying, but in the grand scheme of things, it wasn't that bad. I lived and I'm no worse for the wear."
Thanks for listening.
