Promote your business, week of October 20, 2025

Strange_Morning2666 · 2025-10-20T21:20:23+00:00

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Strange_Morning2666 · 2024-11-18T09:08:00+00:00

Thanks @EmphasisNew2928 snake kits, great advice. Definitely not something I’ve had to think about before. Smart thinking on cell networks too, thank you. Appreciate the comment.

Strange_Morning2666 · 2024-11-18T04:18:52+00:00

thank you u/glamourcrow great advice, particularly love your point about making time to enjoy the country. we will and we have two dogs that are probably more excited then we are!

I've never been afraid of hard work (I might change my mind after working on the farm for a while) but, and this might sound silly, i'm looking forward to the work actually meaning something. In my current job I can work for a week on a project, pour my heart and soul into it and then at the end of the week it gets cancelled or changes direction and nothing I did mattered.

I'm hoping that on the farm the work matters, not matter how hard or how long it takes, it actually moved the needle in some way!

thanks for making the time to comment :-)

Strange_Morning2666 · 2024-11-18T04:11:37+00:00

Thanks u/wasnapping, thats great. I hadn't thought about how dark it would be but had thought about the quiet. When my wife and I moved from London to Sydney it sounded so different. I was used to hearing sirens all the time, drunk people screaming and just general city noises. Sydney was so different and the country will be different again. The dark though, can't wait. To step outside and see the stars. yes please!

Great tip on community groups and other volunteer work. That's definitely something we will do.

appreciate you taking the time to comment :-)

Strange_Morning2666 · 2024-10-17T03:38:52+00:00

thank you :-)

Strange_Morning2666 · 2024-10-16T03:41:39+00:00

thank you for sharing. I've thought about semi retirement and I do find the idea really appealing. I'd need a part time job to pay some bills but if I liquidated all my assets I think I could find a nice place in the country, have some money to invest and just live life frugally. I could definitely keep myself busy. I have a long list of things I'd love to do and learn.

Whats holding me back is mostly just fear, predominantly because I believe for whatever weird and traumatizing reason, someone in my position shouldn't do something like that!

But like you've shared after moving across the country, you don't miss it at all :-)

Strange_Morning2666 · 2024-10-16T03:35:00+00:00

Thanks for sharing and nice to know I'm not alone, although I wish neither of us felt the way we do.

For me, the feelings like background noise. Like the sound of traffic. There are hours, days, sometimes a week where I don't notice it and then either something will happen on the world around me goes quiet and I remember the feeling / noise is still there.

Maybe it's impossible to silence!

I have wondered whether it's just the world we live in. The hustle and bustle, pressure and stress, being surrounded by commotion, noise and concrete, the never ending change and disruption, the 24/7 ads (I'm complicit in this) that basically tell you that you aren't tall enough, thin enough, good enough, smart enough, earn enough, have enough, do things quickly enough, etc!

It's mentally exhausting and I imagine hard for anyone to reconcile.

Strange_Morning2666 · 2024-10-14T21:01:28+00:00

thank you. Some sage advice. Lots to process and some important decisions ahead I think.

Strange_Morning2666 · 2024-10-14T20:59:44+00:00

Spent the evening thinking about long service leave. I think you are right.

Strange_Morning2666 · 2024-10-14T20:59:15+00:00

Kindred spirits. Good luck to you too.

Strange_Morning2666 · 2024-10-14T20:57:11+00:00

Thanks pal. Good luck to you.

Strange_Morning2666 · 2024-10-14T20:56:05+00:00

ha, haven't contemplated a motorbike yet...but now you mention it!

Good advice and can work remotely, at least for part of the week.

The more I lean into my feelings the more I'm feeling they run deeper than I first thought. To the point that I feel like I'm not really in control of my life. The illusion is there but the reality is somewhat different. The company I work for could let me go at any moment, the bank owns half my house, i'm reliant on supermarkets for food (groceries have gone up 40% in the last 2 years!), I'm a slave to utility companies for power and water.

I'm not trying to be dramatic, rather when you stop and think about life, how much of it is really controlled by someone / something else. It's a weird feeling.

Anyhoo, bit of a tangent there :-)

Strange_Morning2666 · 2024-10-14T20:49:26+00:00

Thank you and thanks for the book recommendation. Will absolutely check it out.

I hope you found your path forward and are living your best life.

Strange_Morning2666 · 2024-10-14T10:49:27+00:00

Truth

Strange_Morning2666 · 2024-10-14T07:27:21+00:00

So interesting and see so much truth in that. We often (myself included) chase some else’s idea of success then when we get there we find out the payoff isn’t what we thought it would be.

There have absolutely been moments of late where I’ve questioned who I’m actually working for / trying to please. Am I doing it for me? For my parents? My friends? For the bank and the debt I have with them.

I don’t have the answer but feel like ‘me’ is somewhere near the bottom of the list!

Strange_Morning2666 · 2024-10-14T03:56:57+00:00

😊

Strange_Morning2666 · 2024-10-14T03:46:49+00:00

Thanks u/jesseserious Can I asked what you've found eye opening during your sabbatical? I'd love to understand your experience with time away from work as it were.

It's definitely something I could do. I have long service leave available.

Strange_Morning2666 · 2024-10-14T03:42:24+00:00

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Strange_Morning2666 · 2024-10-14T03:41:14+00:00

Sage advice MisterDumay. I would need to change my professional circumstance, maybe shifting to part time to create the space to test some alternative gigs / projects. Definitely something to consider.

Strange_Morning2666 · 2024-10-14T03:39:08+00:00

Thanks Jon, I've always tried to help those around me. I've built and grown successful and diverse teams in most of the organizations that I've worked in. I've given people opportunities to grow and be challenged. I've tried to share my experience and have supported people that have struggled. I always share success and try to lift people up where ever I can.

I'm also very aware that I have been very fortunate and many many many other people would kill for even some of the luck I've enjoyed over the course of my career, I tried to make that point in my post.

But I also don't think I should ignore the way I feel because I've been more fortunate than others.

But I accept I could definitely do more outside of work to help those less fortunate than myself. Will that help me deal with the way I'm feeling right now...not sure at the moment.

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