Been a bizarre three weeks. Firstly, the mother-in-law passed away on Sunday 28th Jan. Ultimately this necessitated me doing my first big out of town trip for 4 years - Christchurch to Dunedin facing stinking hot weather on the way down on Tuesday 30th. The trip back on Thursday 1st was even more entertaining with torrential rain from Dunedin to Timaru, stinking hot again from Timaru to Ashburton and then add in gale force winds for the rest of the trip to Christchurch. Fell in love with biking again over those three days. Oh, did I mention that while in Dunedin after the funeral we had to rush away and rescue the bike from where it was garaged which was right over the road from the big fire that broke out in the industrial area.
Back to work on Monday 5th to be told mid afternoon that my position was being made redundant. Doom and gloom ... Sky TV cancelled, mortgage can be adjusted and a couple of other things tweaked to make it surviveable if I accept their 'Plan B, which sees my hours cut in half and hourly rate cut by 20%. Sunday 11th looking through the Trade me adverts for truck driving jobs to take advantage of my HT licence when I spied one that read "Do you enjoy working OUTDOORS riding a MOTORBIKE and having WEEKENDS FREE? ... blah blah blah, "40 hours per week on average". Cover letter written that day and sent. Phone call next morning asking me to interview the following day. Asked back to show my riding and delivery skills today, Friday 16th and now I have a new job as a DX delivery rider. Stress free job compared to the current one ... I won't be lying awake at 4am worrying about this job. So from redundancy notice to a new job in a new sphere in 12 days at age 57. Not bad. Last time I was made redundant at age 32 it took me 18 months to land a full time job.
Did I mention I'm getting paid to ride a motorbike.
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