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Rhianne · 07-20-2011, 01:27 PM

I'm 47. I've worked my whole life since leaving school with only a couple of brief periods of unemployment. The last while I was based fairly near where I live but before that I travelled about and could be away from home for days or weeks, mostly in the UK but also elsewhere in Western Europe, Africa and Asia. I (mostly) enjoyed it all.

Then I had a heart attack and suddenly work mattered less, particularly in comparison to the importance of the people I was closest to. Just over a year ago in May last year I made what at the time seemed like a huge and difficult decision but now seems so straightforward and obvious and gave up working entirely to look after, full time, my partner who has a long term, chronically debilitating, health issue.

So am I employed? No. Am I looking for work? No. I have as much of that as I can cope with. Am I happy? No, not really, but things could be worse. I don't know what box to check!

07-20-2011, 01:27 PM	#7
Rhianne Nearly done. Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Teetering on the edge. Posts: 1,134	I'm 47. I've worked my whole life since leaving school with only a couple of brief periods of unemployment. The last while I was based fairly near where I live but before that I travelled about and could be away from home for days or weeks, mostly in the UK but also elsewhere in Western Europe, Africa and Asia. I (mostly) enjoyed it all. Then I had a heart attack and suddenly work mattered less, particularly in comparison to the importance of the people I was closest to. Just over a year ago in May last year I made what at the time seemed like a huge and difficult decision but now seems so straightforward and obvious and gave up working entirely to look after, full time, my partner who has a long term, chronically debilitating, health issue. So am I employed? No. Am I looking for work? No. I have as much of that as I can cope with. Am I happy? No, not really, but things could be worse. I don't know what box to check!