The curveballs of life

I’ve been in my current role for a little over 10 years. I work in government and have my years put in for pension, so I can retire whenever I’m ready. I was planning on sticking around at least until next summer when my house will be paid off.

Monday morning, my boss was pushed out and the director moved the biggest idiot I’ve ever known into her position. I refuse to work for this guy long term. This was a political move because my boss and I had implemented some changes that have received serious pushback. Pretty sure I’m next in the crosshairs. Luckily my personnel file is spotless and I’ve always gotten great annual reviews, so they can’t fire me without a fight. But they can make my life here miserable, which I’ve already seen the foundation for that being laid. They took a big project I’ve been working on for several months away from me. Which is fine because it’s been a pain in the arse, but now I really don’t have much to do outside my normal duties.

I have plenty of connections to find something else, but part of me doesn’t want to give them the satisfaction of leaving. I also don’t really want to start over somewhere else when retirement is on the near horizon for me. Anyway, just thinking out loud here because I’ve already knocked out what I had to do today. So I guess I’m gonna sit here in my office and pretend to work all day while drawing a decent taxpayer funded salary.

Oh, and my gf and I talked marriage over the weekend. Weird times in my life right now.

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