Diary of a future annuitant (73)

Sometimes you have to know how to take a step back to move forward. This spring I had decided to start a small sideline activity. This was supposed to allow me to move into my new life by finally giving up my salaried job for good. Nevertheless I quickly became disillusioned, two months later, being confronted with the reality of a Rat Race omnipresent. The training I was following at the time, supposed to free me from the vicious circle of work and consumption, only served to sink me deeper into it.

Fortunately, I quickly noticed this problem and decided to turn back immediately. The first piece of good news in this little misfortune is precisely this saving reflex. The Rat Race, not only do I feel it coming, but I also now know how to protect myself from it. It's becoming almost instinctive. Whether at work, in my private life or in this very specific situation, I systematically and quickly make the right decisions. A few years ago, I would have procrastinated and let myself be caught up in the whirlwind of work and responsibilities. Now I run away at the drop of a hat.

The second good news is that I also immediately took measures compared to my lucrative activity, by reducing my hours to almost 20 hours per week.

Finally, the last positive point is that this pseudo failure led me to reconsider the means to achieve the desired secondary activity. Indeed, it was not the goal of my approach that posed so much problem for me, but rather the way to get there.

Today, I am therefore setting off again on the path to this much-coveted little job which will allow me to definitively bury my lucrative activity. To be continued.