Trying to Retire

[Judge]

Personally I find retirement similar to my last "career" as a personal investor.

-Risky business.

 

[Rodafina]

After much internal trauma, I have put in motion the termination of my business.

I have worked out a plan whereby my employees and their clients can move to a different agency, with minimal disruption for most. It is a bit more complicated than that, but that is the general idea.

I have notified the state agency with personal calls to the ROM and my liaison. Also called the woman who has been my billing agent for a bazillion years. Everyone is stunned. Talking to people about it makes all the feelings of loss and grief over abandoning my clients come up again. Emailed the payroll company. Still lots of people to notify, but that will come.

Inside I am torn up, but mostly handling it pretty well. This email, from the ROM, put me totally into tears:

I am sure this decision was not arrived to easily and, while we surely understand the heavy heart, I also hope it is also with a head held high knowing that you have positively impacted hundreds and hundreds of lives. You are a tremendous advocate that has a done a wealth of good for the families we all serve.

I hope this next chapter brings you much well deserved comfort and joy.

This sounds so bittersweet for you! I am excited for what comes next for you, but it seems like some transitions in life are just really difficult and sad. This is such a wonderful thing for you to hear as you depart the field, knowing that you did so much good.

 

[Shevek]

Congratulations. This is so much better than working when you can't keep up, or just burning out and dropping everyone cold. Some businesses still pretend to be growing when they will be shut next week.
BTW, I was very surprised when a friend who had been living with assistance for years, and then moved to a hospice just went silent. Nobody had a look at his email account to see if he had prepared anything, or tried to send all his contacts an announcement. Another friend had died unexpectedly, and there was a service for all his local friends, but it took two years for the news to get out of town to his many other friends, after I happened across a mutual friend on a forum.