A gentleman of (almost) leisure

As you will know if you’ve been following my exploits over the last few months, I have recently been forced into commuting to Maidenhead in the UK each week. Clearly this was not an ideal long-term arrangement.

This difficult situation was further compounded by the fact that I had not enjoyed my job for well over a year and recent changes in the organisation had made it very difficult for this to change.

So, against a background of job losses, cutbacks and belt-tightening, I found myself in the position where I was offered a “way out”. That this approach was open to me was entirely down to me being employed under a French contract. And thank goodness for that, as without it my “way out” may well have been through the back door with a bit of loose change in my pocket.

As it was, though, the security offered to me under French employment law thankfully put me in a much better position than others in the organisation.

Thus I have now left my job with RightNow Technologies, where I have worked for over 4 years, and find myself with a little time to relax and enjoy the summer with the family, before embarking on the search for a new job.

I am very happy with this arrangement. At last I can take control of my life and my future career, and hopefully take it into a new and exciting direction.

But for now I’m loving being a gentleman of (almost) leisure – and with the sun shining in a bright blue sky every day, who wouldn’t?