Quote Originally Posted by Nardendee View Post
Sorry for the loss of your friend Brin, but regarding your question whether I miss the old job/routine.

I have to say my answer is NO, not a single bit.

I was passionate about my work and regarded it as family but, in hindsight it was nothing of the sort.

Don’t know whether you have read Benjamin Disraeli, who often referred to his life in parliament as the greasy pole.

That is how I look back on my career. In essence work was all encompassing. Sure I earned money, made a living, not a vast fortune but enough to knock it on the head at 62 and spend more time with my wife & dogs.
When Covid hit,my outlook on what was important changed dramatically.
Since retiring both my parents have passed, but they both lived long lives (98 & 93 resp.) and I was fed up doing things that other people wanted me to do.

Don’t get me wrong, work is important but can’t ever recall reading anything on a grave stone purporting to working very hard.
I think that, regardless of how much they liked or disliked their actual jobs, people will remember their working lives with fondness or otherwise dependent largely upon the people they worked with. Nothing Narden has to say about his own working life chimes in the slightest with me. Some of my closest and dearest friends I met at work and still regularly meet up with two of the lads I met on my first day at work. I met my wife in the offices at Parkgate and we have been together happily for over 50 years.