Changes coming – my future being planned

Changes coming - my future being planned
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Consider this post a message to myself with you guys being interested parties.

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Where to now?

It’s a question that I keep asking myself. My eyes are recovering well and the future beckons. But which future?

A long time ago, back in the mid-1980s, my rich uncle visited Australia. He was a man who had started his career as a butcher’s boy and ended up on the Board of Directors of one of Europe’s largest companies. Given that I grew up poor, such a visit was quite exciting. (Yes – there was vast diversity between the relative career successes of the generation above me).

This particular

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  1. Good luck Greg. I’ve already decided that, for the sake of my health and sanity, I need to quit teaching next year at 55. So, I’ll be embarking on the same journey just a little after you.
    Dale


    1. Thanks Dale 🙂 Where have the years gone?!? As much as I feel that it will be a scary journey, I am also hoping that it will be an exciting and interesting one. 🙂 Hope it will be for you too 🙂

      Greg


  2. Sounds like a solid plan! Wishing you lots of success and let any bureaucratic obstacles in your way shatter =)


    1. Thanks my friend 🙂

      I will endeavour to shatter away 🙂

      Greg


  3. Perhaps you need multiple blogs – one for the business stuff, one for all the other gazillion things you’re interested in…..
    (And no, I’ve not been particularly ignoring you, just you haven’t been getting to the top of the reader too often, so I missed you.)


    1. Thanks for the suggestion 🙂 I thought about multiple blogs but ended up rejecting the idea. I thought “what am I offering potential clients?” The answer is my combination of skills and knowledge. Then I thought “what things would I enjoy doing for work?” The answer was anything to do with my gazillion interests. 🙂 I also want to differentiate myself from the “suits” who are currently dominating the business world (at least the business world as I have experienced it). I was at a prospective client a few days back. They had been sold a system by just such a “suit”. He had looked professional and said all the things that inspire confidence in people, but as I chatted I discovered that he had shown little interest in understanding their business or their needs. Hence the poor fit in the system. I intend to be different and am already learning their business in order to fix the problem.

      I guess I want to be the “Columbo” or “Jonathan Creek” of my industry: a quirky guy with non-traditional thinking who cares about his clients and solves their issues. I want to offer a very broad range of services covering all my interests. And hopefully this strange site of mine can sell me 🙂

      I must admit that I am not on much. That’s been due to a number of issues. Before the redundancy I used to spend 2 hours a day sitting on a train. That was my WordPress and reading time. That’s vanished now as my wife has turned it into our outing-to-a-caf


      1. Ah – another Columbo fan. We have much in common it seems. Johnathan Creek I have not heard of. Some cultural differences I guess…. Yes – the ‘listening salesperson’ is a great angle to market yourself.


        1. 🙂 Thanks 🙂 I’ve spent a few days now customising the site. And you should try and find some Jonathan Creek, especially the first few seasons. It’s an English show. The title character is a guy who works for a stage magician, developing the technical slight of hand behind the “magic”. As such he finds himself helping a female journalist to solve “impossible” murder mysteries. It’s very quirky.

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