..and thought how my career could have ended up differently if I had stayed in the job.
I hired the woman in question, I was in a very high flying job. She was incredibly beautiful, around 6 years younger than me and also amazing at her job.
We met after 20 years again for work, and she looks much older than her age. I have aged well, although I do not do much apart from applying religiously SPF.
She suddenly asked me how I managed to " keep my looks".
I was startled as we weren't friends and my first impulse was to say " I am happier in what I do".
She is dreaming of retiring, I want to return back to full time ( not to the same job, unfortunately) after my DD goes to uni. I find it extremely difficult to return back into a full time position and I seem to come out of another era. Frankly I have been dreaming a lot of what would have been of me if I kept my job ( which I loved btw) and not given part time consultancy, training young people in what I am good at.
Somehow I now feel better ( and a bit petty).
Has it ever happened to you?
To just have a moment in which you suddenly look back to your past choices and things look in a completely different way?