Opportunity knocks and I don't answer the door.
It has been taken as read in our office that in February 2011 when one of my more senior colleagues retires I would become our practices 'audit supremo,' the title makes it sound like a pizza, "I'll have the audit supremo but without the extra legislation please love."
Alternatively it sounds like a load of bollocks!
Anyway last Friday I informed my boss that I didn't want the job. It wasn't an instant decision I'd thought long and hard about it, spent a lot of hours in the French sunshine in July (Paris) and August (Southern Brittany) thinking about it and decided that my heart wasn't really in it. I could tell from his reaction that my boss wasn't expecting it and it threw him slightly and it also leaves the practice in a bit of a quandary as well. The alternative person for the job, not that there was an alternative until I turned it down, is somebody who is universally disliked with a passion I have never experienced in thirty two years of working in the profession. This isn't a Marmite situation this is dislike and in one case, so I have been told by another colleague, loathing!
So why have I said 'no' when really there shouldn't be a reason I shouldn't say 'yes'? Well I'm looking at the short term rather than a long term plan. Next year our mortgage will be paid off, we will celebrate twenty five years of marriage and I will be fifty. Apart from the holidays, and the three school summer holidays when I worked in factories/canteens I would have spent nearly forty five years of my life sitting at a desk, from school through to thirty three years of employment in the accountancy profession. I would like to take a break, either cut down on my hours or try something different, and no I don't have a clue about what.
to be continued...............
3 comments:
Paul,
I know exactly where you're coming from because I'm "reviewing" my own situation right now. I'm 54 with six years to go before I can draw my local government pension.
I ask myself "Do I want to drag my body through to Newcastle everyday just to be treated like a second class citizen by a company that only cares about its graduates?"
You are not alone, Paul. I suspect there's tens of thousands like us up and down the country.
Yep...I may be back soon just as everyone is leaving! No pension, no plns, no problem; I had a shack bar on a Caribbean beach in mind
:-)
Hi Shy, due to the problems my Dad had (being made bankrupt twice) my sole aim for the past 25 years has been to reach the mortgage winning post, so the house is ours. That's been my number one goal and I'm thinking what next?
Span, you might only be able to afford the cocktail umbrellas if things don't pick up!
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