“You have been awarded the badge of master bread maker”
I start, along with the confusion of achieving something new, my husband’s tone was “game show announcer” – not something I hear from him very often!
The prompt for this announcement was my own surprise at having finished a packet of yeast before it had gone past it’s best before date – again, my beloved’s observation.
When you work full time, life is pretty hectic. During lockdown, and the great bread and packet mix shortage, it was much more understandable to be in that position, but I never really managed it.
“Of course, life isn’t like a computer game, is it. You don’t get awards for the everyday things.”
Which is so true. But, so far, everyday I wake up warm and safe. I do make decisions about how the day will work for me. I quite like that autonomy.
Being made redundant, I now have a bewildering number of options. A pay out for the incovience (believe me, I’d much rather have the role. I was doing some interesting work on managing risk), means I don’t have to leap blind – a position I have been in a few times in my career, although I have made it work for both parties.
I have a few things to do in the house, and some skills I’d like to brush up on.
Or I could pull my finger out, and write my book and my apps. I’d like to form a not for profit to provide augmented tooling for people with conditions that can be chaotically modelled.
Posted: November 1st, 2025 under 42.