Tag: Having a plan B
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Last night was one of my favourite kinds of evenings. Friday, six o’clock — my usual glass of red wine, fish and chips, and settling down to watch the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics. There’s something comforting about ritual, and something inspiring about watching people who have trained, struggled, and persevered step onto the…
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When I stopped working physically, I didn’t stop being useful.I didn’t stop having knowledge.I didn’t stop being creative. Many of us underestimate what we already possess: It can also be very stressful to have a job centre work coach or whatever they are now called going on and on about you having ‘transferable skills ‘…
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There comes a moment in many lives when the path you expected to follow simply… stops. It might be illness.It might be disability.It might be caring responsibilities.It might be age. Or it might simply be that your body has given decades of service to a physical profession and can no longer keep up — even…
