What is your career plan?

I do not have a career plan, nor will I ever. I have been retired for over 10 years and therefore I am free from such columberations. I have to admit, these have been the best 10 years of my life!

The clock has chimed its final trade,

Ten years have spun, a world remade.

No five-year charts, no ladder’s climb,

No strategic dance with passing time.

The word “career,” a distant hum,

A notion past, now overcome.

No goals to set, no paths to trace,

Just open days and gentle pace.

Let others plot their upward flight,

And wrestle futures, day and night.

My compass spins to where it will,

A quiet joy my hours fill.

No more the meetings, sharp and keen,

The daily grind, the in-between.

The shackles loosed, the spirit free,

From such “columberations,” I agree.

The garden calls, the book awaits,

The rambling walks through sunlit gates.

The whisper of the ocean’s foam,

A truer purpose, called me home.

So let the planners chart their way,

I’ll greet the dawn of each new day,

With gratitude for freedoms won,

My career’s grand chapter now is done.

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Did you like my use of the word “columberations?” I made it up, but it exactly fits what I wanted to say.