Like a lot of people things have changed.  I got laid off as part of a corporate clean up in my 50s and was content to settle into retirement but after a year of puttering around the farm decided to get back into it.  Well partially at least.  I opted to not go full time employee but embrace the gig economy so to speak. Much easier to do when the kids are done school and the mortgage is paid.

It is at times frustrating not having a regular schedule but then again my corporate life was fairly chaotic and subject to the whims of customers and executives.  I do seem to be able to slot in a wider variety of things during the week but most importantly life comes before work in this new equation.

I do not envy those starting out in these uncertain times but I do understand their angst seeing it at home with our children, all adults now, who have a view of work and the world I did not.  I am certain my parents had similar views when I was partying away my young adulthood.

In the end the path I took to get here is not open to replotting and in most likely where I am is the happiest I have been in any iteration of the multiverse but as I can’t see across them just yet I will have to be content with this one..

later

I am not a great blogger.. I tend to spend far more of my time in real life.  I have been focussed on entertaining family and guests over the new year, working on the farm and trying to make life as normal as possible during covid.

We have been lucky here in Thailand.  We had some hard lock downs early and benefitted from keeping the spread down and being able to move internally.  Yeah we had some oops moment as people were allowed to sneak across the border bringing the infection rates higher,  some people decided that it was safe to travel even though they hung out with people who were tested positive.

We have been hit hard on tourism which was a much bigger impact than expected.  As I travel around I see more and more small businesses  being shut down and put up for sale.  A lot of pain and suffering across the board.  We had a terrible return for the marian plum last year.  Even though we got over 2000 kilos we didn’t cover half the operating costs as we harvested right in the middle of the lock down and the market dried up.  But fortunately this year things are opened up and we are moving online.

So even though this is written already a month into the new year I will try to write with more regularity.

later

R