I turned 62 years old and the company has refused to give me a new contract due to my age. It has been a long drawn-out process to get to this point. I was unable to decide if I really wanted to do one more year.
Now that I have been rejected, I realize I really wanted to get another year in.
Right now, I am in between “denial” and “deal-making.”
I am not ready to go home and teach at some community college. My work here is important.
Oh well.
In all my years I cannot recall a person who was saddened to leave this Kingdom.
We were kinda sad leaving in 2004. The unknown etc. but my husband was only 54 then and he worked 11 years more in Qatar,Libya and Australia. Then finished up in the States.
Is that true? You obviously know way more about it than me, but I was under the impression that westerners had a bit more leniency than native born people, but also that the pay was incredibly high due to the level of wealth and poor living conditions In the area due to the climate.
I would advise looking into something to do next ASAP.
When I was forced to retire at 35, the hardest thing was getting over the loss of identity. The next hardest was figuring out what to do with myself. I mean, they shoot horses, don’t they? But alas, except in literary works and the films based on them, I wouldn’t council that. I’m looking at getting back into school now, but if I had it to do over again I’d have started that process a full year before I retired so I could arrange a seamless transition from one thing to the next.
Whatever you decide on, start working towards it in earnest now. Don’t let a block form in your mind where you convince yourself it’ll be easier to focus on the future once your current job/assignment is past. You don’t want to risk getting caught up in the doldrums and loosing momentum in the transition, see?
Thank you all. I am feeling better this morning. As Wesley Clark pointed out, my current job must become less important to me now as I focus on my next one.