"Cue dramatic music"
21 years of working as a Librarian and I left my job. Mostly by choice, partly by decisions that were out of my control. And though being made redundant is never easy I feel happy to be gone.
The library I worked for is no longer the same, Like many libraries around the world there have been cut-backs and cost saving measures and restructuring. All of which have made working there no longer the great job it was. Which is a little sad because I loved my job. It was interesting and fun and something that I was passionate about.
That passion and fun though has faded a little over the last year, squashed down by corporate management who have no real understanding or love for what libraries are about and only think about the bottom dollar. I'm being polite here. I'd like to say they are idiotic morons who haven't got a clue and a whole lot of other things.
But I can't. So I won't.
So instead I will say that though making the decision to leave was hard in the end it was and is the right choice for me.
Bye bye libraries and Hello freedom
Luckily for me I am more fortunate that most. I have a roof over my head and some savings which are now a little bigger courtesy of my redundancy. Of course it's not all a life of pink glitter and dancing - though there is some of that. I have to be careful. Very very careful which of course means some changes and some sacrifices.
No more hair dye for me (sob) or chocolate (even more sobbing). I'm not sure which is more traumatic, the fact that I've going to have to go back to my original hair colour (a scary thought in itself) or a life without chocolate.
Still as scary as it is facing life without a job it is also exciting. My list of things I want and need to do is pretty long. Like exercise and eat healthier and clean out cupboards and write more and knit more and learn Italian and do an online course...
In other words
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