Originally Posted by MacEachaidh
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Well, in some ways it was made easy for me, in the sense that I had a nasty accident that took the decisions out of my hands. I lost my footing on a marble staircase that had been mopped and left puddled and slippery, fell over the handrail and down the stairwell, landed on a marble floor, smashed my spine and lost my job. I was laid up for a while and even had to learn to walk again, so the severing was kinda done for me. (No, I meant the job, not my vertebrae ...) And then ... it was pretty easy, once I had some distance from the day-to-day, to realise I just didn't want to wade back into that particular swamp.
I got a job sub-editing a couple of magazines (yeah, OK, they're computer magazines, but I had to leverage my skillset somehow!) - it only barely pays the bills, and often not even that, but it's a start - and I put some time into improving my Gaelic, which I hadn't used for a long time. I now sing traditional music in a semi-professional quartet of which I'm the musical director, and teach the language at university. All things that I never had time to even think about before.
And it's much better than crawling around under computer desks!!  |