Shall we start with the usual?

How is the year over? How is 2025 just hours away? How does time go by so fast?

It has been a weird year all around, which if you’ve been following along, you know. I think, in truth, we all can agree it has been numerous weird years in a row.

Will 2025 be better? I doubt anyone could say with certainty, on a global scale it is all a bit terrifying. A scale that is hard to comprehend from our perspective. Which makes it all the more unnerving.

Instead, we focus on our own little lives since that is where we have a smidgen of control. Though it hasn’t felt that way for me for a while.

So what does that mean for my 2025? Will there be big changes? At my age there seems to be fewer of those available – work, life, it all starts to feel pretty set.

I did choose to switch jobs, a huge change for me. (It is still early days, but I’m hoping it is going well. Some days I think it is, others less so.)

Life? I do not foresee changes. I’m not going to pretend I’ll get healthier just because January rolled around again (frankly I’ll probably become less healthy, some one find me some cake!). I don’t think I’ll start any new hobbies. I’d like to be less stressed, though it is kind of my personality so that would be weird if I wasn’t.

At the end of the year, I guess we’ll just keep doing what we’re doing and hoping for the best. The sun rises and sets, at least that is something lovely to see.

It has been a long month.

I spent the first half trying to exit my old job, we went back and forth a bit with them trying to keep me on staff but in the end I just had to walk away.

In the latter half, I was overwhelmed and exhausted by the new job. It includes a longer commute (nothing really, but it changes your day when you have to add that time) and, frankly, an insane amount of paper, er, information to take in. My brain is trying to learn all new things at a fast pace, and by the end of two weeks, I am honestly wondering if I have made a poor choice in taking this new job.

I know this change is something I’ll get used to, and I’ll learn what I need to as time goes on, but after being in the same job for 20 years, I was very comfortable in my knowledge, and my job was, if not easy, straightforward.

As well as having to learn all this new information I also have to hang out with all new people, which may be more exhausting than the work itself. I’m an introvert at heart, and while I can extrovert when necessary, it drains so much energy. The combination of these factors is leaving me feeling fatigued by the end of the day and completely burned out by the end of the week. I’m looking forward to a time when things start to feel easy again but I fear that may take a while.

Is it too late to start my life over again as the heir to some immense generational wealth?

I am getting really bad at remembering to post at the end of each month. Perhaps because general life stress is keeping me preoccupied or perhaps because not all that much is worth writing about.

I think October passed me by so quickly because there were added stressors, elections (here in BC, though the one in the US was equally as stressful and ended in utter disappointment frankly) and I was offered a job that would change my career for the first time in almost two decades.

I tried to make something work with my current employer and the new offer, but in the end, we couldn’t reach an accord, so I’ll be moving on to this new challenge very soon.

I am both excited and worried about this. I hope I’m up to the challenge, and believe my experience from the last two decades in public practice accounting has given me the skills I need for the new job, but I still worry that perhaps I’m making the wrong choice. Maybe I’ll dislike the job or overestimate my ability and won’t be good at it. No one likes failure, but to do so at this point in my life would feel extra stressful.

Either way, I am trying to look at this as a new start to carry into the new year. Wish me luck!