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    Home > Life

    Leaving Work

    Published: Jul 26, 2014 · Modified: Feb 21, 2018 by Nicky Corbishley

    You may have seen on one of my previous posts that I have decided to leave work.  After 14 years working in IT (my most recent role being a Disaster Recovery Lead), I decided it was the right time for me to take some stress out of my life, focus on the kids and the house, and to give my husband opportunity to be more flexible with his job.

    Over the past few years, both of our jobs have become more time consuming, meaning that the kids were having to go to afterschool and breakfast club more, and we were using our evening and weekends to either work some more, or to catchup on other stuff, like chores and more recently, blogging.

    So when the opportunity came up to go for voluntary redundancy, I pondered for a while, change my mind quite a few times, then with total support from Chris, I decided to go for it!

    I finished my last day in the office on Wednesday, and got to pick my kids up from school on their last day before their summer holidays 🙂  I've had a couple of days off now and it definitely hasn't sunk in yet.  I am more relaxed though, my house is tidier and I'm totally enjoying having fun with the kids.

    We got to go out for the day to a big country park and flower show on Thursday.  We wandered around in the sun, ate ice cream, rode the ferris wheel and played in the playground.  There was no 'hurry up', 'come on, move along' or 'time to go, mummy's got work to do'.  Just a chilled out day, which was followed the next day by a gorgeous bouquet from Chris to celebrate this next phase in our lives.

    24 Red Roses

    So what am I going to do next?

    Well I'm looking forward to having lots more fun with the kids over summer (especially as Lewis starts reception class in September), getting a couple of holidays in, and then buckling down and spending some more time cooking for my blog.  Alongside that, I've started looking into some freelance work and writing the first few chapters of a novel (eek!).  I don't have any plans to return to IT at this point, but I'll see how it goes.  I'm not sure how well I'll adjust to not going in the office everyday, managing a team and making decisions that impact more than me or my family.  I think cookies and cake will help though 🙂

    So there we have it!

    I'm a little scared, a lot excited and ready for a new challenge!

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    1. Phyllis. Jones says

      December 20, 2020 at 9:42 pm

      I like to know how to keep my cookies soft. They get hard after baking. What am I doing wrong?

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    2. [email protected] and Brown Sugar says

      July 28, 2014 at 6:44 pm

      I just decided to leave my job as well! Unfortunately, I will be working part-time until at least November, as I train-up my replacement, but I too am looking forward to less stress at home and more time spent blogging... and following your blog 🙂

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      • Nicky Corbishley says

        July 28, 2014 at 7:11 pm

        Congratulations! Maybe we should encourage each other to not get distracted by daytime TV (or in my case reading, 'researching' and generally procrastinating!!) 🙂

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    3. nicole (thespicetrain.com) says

      July 26, 2014 at 5:35 pm

      Good for you, Nicky! 14 years is a looong time.

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      • Nicky Corbishley says

        July 26, 2014 at 6:32 pm

        Thanks Nicole, I think it'll take a bit of time to sink in, but I'm pretty excited!!

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    4. apuginthekitchen says

      July 26, 2014 at 1:42 pm

      Congratulations, good for you and it's wonderful that you will be able to spend more time with the children and devote time to things you love to do. I did the same but chose self employment in real estate after leaving the corporate world.

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      • Nicky Corbishley says

        July 26, 2014 at 6:45 pm

        Thanks Suzanne, I can't wait to spend the summer with the kids. Good for you too! I'm not 100% sure what's going to happen and where I'll go next, but I kind of like the uncertainty at the moment 🙂

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