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Are we all retired people or bored housewives on here at this time of day?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I don't come on AB very often when other people are around. I don't feel the need, unless Mr LL is engrossed in some boring TV programme.
The garden and being outside is priority in the spring and summer. AB is lovely for winter days when I should be finding jobs to do in the house and the snow and ice is stopping me going out.
The garden and being outside is priority in the spring and summer. AB is lovely for winter days when I should be finding jobs to do in the house and the snow and ice is stopping me going out.
How very true, Lottie. Did the same myself after taking early retirement from teaching. you literally had to pee by the clock. Amazing how those who are given jobs not involving answering calls become so clever all of a sudden. Fortunately I was quite good at what I did and was eventually promoted to Team Manager, albeit it 30+ years older than the next youngest manager (snotty-nosed kids who couldn't probably even flip burgers for a living). I made sure that people in my team were treated with the courtesy and respect with which I had not been at first, often putting myself out on a limb and incurring the displeasure of my bosses. I eventually grew to love the job, and would still be happily working there now, were it not for the fact that the Good Bosses of National Rail Enquiries decided in their wisdom that rail travellers in the UK would be far better served by agents from India, rather than Newcastle. i still miss it.
Wish you had been my boss Mike. I had some lovely colleagues but we were treated like dirt by jumped up little team leaders and so called managers. I'm afraid I just couldn't tolerate it for more than 4 years. I do not suffer fools gladly and wasn't their favourite employee. It ended up also being a very complex job where we had to have a lot of knowledge on educational requirements, training, employment law, etc. etc. I actually would have liked the job had it not been for the treatment we had to endure and if the remit was to actually help the people who phoned in rather than get through x calls in a day and being times on loo breaks etc.
I ended up with a few very good friends though!
Before that I worked in Admin in Education and the workload was doubling every year. I was lucky to get home before 7.00pm each evening and I was completely stressed out. I had internet access, but no time to use it for my own ends!!
I ended up with a few very good friends though!
Before that I worked in Admin in Education and the workload was doubling every year. I was lucky to get home before 7.00pm each evening and I was completely stressed out. I had internet access, but no time to use it for my own ends!!
I am so glad not to be a slave to work any more China. My lunch was toast with fried tomatoes covered in sweet chilie dip. It is very nice being retired apart from the age thing that tends to accompany it. Retirement and state pension should be between 20 and 50 and work between 50 and until we can't work anymore!
i'm at home and have my laptop on all the time so i just pop in and out of this and various other sites i frequent as and when. same at the week-end. i've found that when you don't work, the week-end is just a nuisance, too many people around at the shops or places your want to visit. we do all our 'going out' during the week and tend to stay in or around the house at the week-end, catching up on jobs, decorating, whatever.
when i did work, my job didn't involve a computer or any technology, it was a day centre for young people with learning difficulties. and the last two years i worked there i worked in the kitchen so the most technological thing i had to deal with was the microwave!
when i did work, my job didn't involve a computer or any technology, it was a day centre for young people with learning difficulties. and the last two years i worked there i worked in the kitchen so the most technological thing i had to deal with was the microwave!