Speaking of checking in, how are you doing without Pepper, Sunny Daze? Is it getting easier?
I’m feeling much better mentally, but now I have some weird hip soreness that I need to get looked at
Thank you.
I’m getting low on cash and need to find something in the next couple of months though.
I’m glad I left the last place. There have been a couple of more firings there lately.
Excellent news.
Best of luck to you, I’m sure you’ll land on your feet at the right place.
I do envy you having all that time off. My job is stressful as I am a supervisor. Personalities clash and I am the one that has to figure out the problem. I have tons of leave accrued but feel guilty when I take time off.
I have a sinus surgery scheduled for next month that I am probably going to re-schedule due to some drama from employees. I cannot turn it off.
Something will break for you at just the right time. I just know it will.
It is always amazing how much the release of pressure feels when you leave bad situations.
But it can also cause some minor physical issues, because all of that stress and tightness is still there, sometimes blowing out of you like a firehose, doing odd things to your body.
I did something comparable almost 6 years ago, although it was a slightly easier decision for me because I have no dependents (other than the 4-legged variety). It was still traumatic - it was a year and a half before I realized that I was really starting to heal - but I have no regrets.
I’m glad you’re feeling better. As others have said, all that stress can do weird things to your body. I hope that’s all the hip problem is. Please keep us posted on that. Nosy bunch we are. 
I was in a somewhat similar situation. My job, which I had previously loved, was turning to suck on a stick. I hated going in every morning. I could barely look at myself in the mirror. I finally screwed up my courage and gave them three weeks notice. (I didn’t want anyone to think I’d been fired.) Well, during those three weeks, another opportunity opened up with an affiliated company, and I started over there. Part time at first, but now, seventeen years later, it’s full time and I love it.
Sometimes, the universe is sending you a message, and you have to listen. Hope you have luck at least as good as I did!
Please don’t reschedule your surgery. Your team will be able to cope without you for a few days. And if it’s longer than a few days, it’s your manager’s job to put someone in. Though you should make it easy for her by suggesting a member of the team
Seriously, never put your own health and needs on the back burner for work. They’ll either cope without you, learn just how valuable you are, decide they don’t really need you afterall 
or discover that they need backup plans and better management chains.
As I saw the other day, just as I needed to see it;
Selfishness is putting your wants ahead of other’s needs.
Self-Respect is putting your needs ahead of other’s wants.
Bumping to check in and see how you’re doing. Any updates on life, work? Are you feeling better?
Wow. Thanks for thinking of me.
I’ve been very fortunate to have been off work this entire time. I had some savings, and then got an unexpected injection of some funds. I’ve never been so relaxed.
I told myself months ago that I would take the entire summer off, and I have.
I am now officially starting to look for work again.
I don’t want to work. I hate work. I just turned 56 and could not work for the rest of my life: unfortunately, I must.
I’m just trying to figure out what I want. I hate the stress of my previous life, and may be happy with a lesser paying job. Ya know?
My oldest brother was suffering from depression and anxiety from his job, his life, and his living circumstance. He was in law enforcement since he was discharged from the Marines. At age 58 he divorced, quit his job and moved to the beach in So.Mississippi. He has a job he doesn’t have to think about dying in or use any critical thinking (bartender) and a new older lady for a girlfriend(she’s 7 or 8 yrs older than him). They live in what amounts to a hut. He couldn’t be happier. Good luck to you.
Leaffan, I’m very happy to hear that you are continuing to do well.
A hut, on a beach as a bartender?
Yeah. I could deal with that.
In my mid-20s I went to Spain with a couple of friends. In the Costa Del Sol area (Marbella?) there was a guy who went to the store and then brought 'round buckets of cold beer on ice for sale, at a considerable mark-up. I think he made a good living, at least in tourist season.
I wanted his job.
Thank you. Sincerely.
When I made the career- and life-altering decision referenced earlier in this post, a maintenance worker in the area where I was living stopped by, and I told him that I would soon be moving away, and why. He replied that a few years earlier, he had a job that paid $90,000 a year, and after his 3rd heart attack, his doctors told him, “You are not going to go back to that job.” He replied, “But how am I supposed to support my family?” and they said, “You can’t do that if you’re dead.” (True) So, he and his wife relocated to this area, because the cost of living was much lower and they had extended family in the region, and even though the pay cut was enough that his wife had to go back to work, something she had considered doing anyway, his health had improved dramatically and his family was also much happier.
Excellent!
Best of luck to you.
I’m glad to hear you’re doing so well. Best wishes on your next step, whatever that may be.