I don't think this is as helpful as I had hoped it would be. I've been telling myself that it's less than 5 years before I can retire, and that also makes it incredibly difficult to find another job, or get the training that would help me to find one, or even to summon up the enthusiasm to learn the skills needed to branch out into something different. I guess that means I am in the doldrums.
On the one hand I am very excited about the prospect of buying this building, assuming I can pull that off, but on the other hand, the people I sit among for 45 hours a week drag me down. I have worked with such wonderful people in the past that I find the comparison startling.
So today I drew a monthly countdown until the moment I can begin to draw my state pension (assuming that particular rug isn't whipped out from under me yet again). I've run it beyond that date because that's quite likely, (particularly the minus one, given the time of year and the seasonal nature of this job), and I've run it back to the start of the page so that more squares are crossed off, but perhaps that's a mistake – I haven't had the joy of ticking them off one by one. I am paid weekly, not monthly, so perhaps I should have run it to 235 weeks, or however many that actually works out to be.
I want the sun to shine and the weather to warm up a bit.