Category: Living life

Thoughts on things mostly unrelated to work or money

Not Quite What I Was Hoping For

I may have mentioned that I am taking a pay cut to reduce my hours.  The plan is that with a slightly shorter day, I can finish earlier, and spend some time on my life outside the office, maybe working on future me.

Today was my first day with the shorter schedule.  I had lots of patients who need extra time, but were scheduled for 15 minute visits.  The electronic medical record wasn’t cooperating.  Despite the supposedly shorter schedule, I finished at same time I used to finish, and went home just as late (actually, later) as I did before the change.

I can tell myself thank goodness my schedule was truncated, otherwise I’d have been in the office even later; but right now, I’m just not feeling the love. We’ll see how things turn out going forward.

On Good Citizenship, or Don’t be a Pig

One of the issues have with some of the frugality blogs out there–and don’t get me wrong, I love reading them–is the excitement? Pride? Exhortation? to take advantage of free things.  It especially bothers me when I know that the author is no longer struggling financially.

I should point out that as I write this, I have just taken advantage of free admission to a museum while staying (for free) at a relative’s home in another city.  So I get the appeal of the cheap/free treat.

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Ten Steps to Future Me

Last week I rambled a bit about finding something to retire to, rather than focusing on retiring from.  Also about (re)building a life that I can enjoy now, rather than waiting until .  I also mentioned that I am taking a small pay cut, to get a little more time back in my life.  The big question is: how will I use that time well?

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