My last year as been a time of change for me. Everything changing at the same time seems almost fitting, in a chaotic type of way.\u00a0 As I pass into my fifties, being “older,” I say goodbye to many things that seemly belong to my pre50\u2019s life. I\u2019m not really giving up anything major, occasional hot pants perhaps; I bet they are frowned upon, for many reasons, after 50 anyway. I mean,<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve read you shouldn\u2019t go bare-legged in public post 50; surely your ass cheeks shouldn\u2019t hang out; but I digress..<\/strong><\/p>\n I’m giving up my previous work of 18 years to go where they are actually excited to have me, post 50 and menopausal female, on board. Not that I was unappreciated at my old job, I think I just became part of the background noise. I was like the hum of the refrigerator: you never hear it when it’s running, only when it stops working would you notice.<\/p>\n A friend asked if he heard an office was looking for someone just like me; I was scared, change after 18 years, who me? The interview went better than expected; I was quite surprised to hear I was needed on their team. Suddenly, the warmth of the sun of appreciation caressed my face, it felt good.<\/p>\n I felt elated, more appreciated than I had in many years; yet it frightened me to think of changing what I knew so well.<\/p>\n Today is a first day for me, a new job, not big deal in everyday life or in the larger scheme of things. For me it is a rebirth of sorts, as I feel that I\u2019ve just let go of a very stressful past and I am about to open to door to a bright future. I now work for an office centered around fitness and is very excited to have me, and my job skills, on board.<\/p>\n My new office has as much to offer me, as I have to offer them; we are excited to have met each other.<\/strong><\/p>\n I’m leaving an office with an expressed a desire to employ only cute, svelte, twenty somethings, which I’m not. 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