Where Do We Go From Here?

One of the most productive hours of tv ever created was once the Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical. The large plot was once a demon got here and made all of the characters sing their private secrets and techniques. By this time within the display’s arc, each persona is in some more or less turmoil. They defeat the demon, as they at all times do, however all isn’t smartly. With all of the characters making a song their secrets and techniques all of the grimy laundry is published for all to peer.

You can really feel the despair within the ultimate track, Where Do We Go From Here?

If you don’t wish to watch, listed below are the related lyrics.

Where will we cross from right here
Where will we cross from right here
The struggle’s achieved,
And we kinda gained.
So we sound our victory cheer.
Where will we cross from right here.
Why is the trail unclear,
When we all know house is close to.

I do know what you’re considering, “Cool story, Bro! But… what’s the point?”

I’ve had this track in my head for a couple of months now… as a result of I believe like we’re dwelling the lyrics.

The Million Dollar Email

A couple of months in the past, I wrote that we had been looking ahead to the million greenback electronic mail . If you ignored it, right here’s a snappy abstract:

My spouse is army and has been up for promotion for roughly 10 years now. It’s been a large rat race as they retain shifting the purpose posts. One yr it was once get a certificates (that’s been in comparison to passing the bar). After that, it was once, “Yeah, we know you have a Pharm. D, but we want you get an MBA.” That result in necessarily doing two jobs for a couple of years. After that they sought after her to steer some committees, so she become an officer on the best pharmacy group. Then they mentioned it wasn’t associated with her army paintings, so she needed to climb the ladder to turn into president of the 6,000 officer corp. Which in fact, she did, and we get to satisfy VPOTUS Kamala Harris in a few months.

You get the image. We figured that this will be the yr that she’d get promoted. Enough is sufficient. This was once the ultimate shot. If she didn’t get it, it was once time to retire and possibly run the social media for Lazy Man Media.

It was once a little bit stretch to mention that one million greenbacks was once at the line, but when she were given the promotion she wouldn’t need to do all of the further paintings (she may just “coast” simply doing her base activity). She would keep on for 3 extra years to maximise her pension on the new rank (they use the easiest wage of 36 months to determine the pension). That’s much more cash now, and a better pension is tens of hundreds of greenbacks for many years (expectantly). In addition, shall we proceed to get some large lively responsibility reductions that we revel in. It does almost definitely fall wanting one million greenbacks, however no longer via an excessive amount of.

I wager you’re good sufficient to position two and two in combination…

… the promotion didn’t occur as soon as once more. This time, they needed to admit to systemic issues of their construction. They have too many officials that rank too prime, so they want some to retire first. However, they avoided any person from retiring ultimate yr as it was once all arms on deck for COVID-19. For years, they haven’t been recruiting other folks, so that they advised the officials that in the event that they wish to be promoted they will have to recruit others to make the bell curve glance higher. Numerous other folks were given fun once I identified that they’re on a slippery slope of turning into a MLM rip-off. It’s a tricky scenario throughout for a large number of other folks – even for the folks making the massive selections on the best.

Where DO we cross from right here?

That’s been the average query, I’ve been requested. Some other folks have congratulated me at the retired spouse. (That felt awkward, however I suppose that’s a favorable method to take a look at it.)

It seems that my spouse can’t even retire this yr. Well, she will be able to, however it might be bizarre. The presidency that I discussed above doesn’t finish till subsequent July, and it makes since for her to be running whilst she’s serving to with the employee stipulations. So it’s another yr. Except that possibly when the promotions pop out on the finish of July she’ll get promoted then and we’ll trade direction.

One benefit of the “one more year” factor is that it offers us time to plot. We’re taking a look to have a yr’s value of bills stored in money and we’re simplest midway there now. There also are strategic occasions to retire equivalent to while you entire a yr of carrier for the reason that pension is in accordance with years labored as smartly. The bargain that our youngsters obtain from college comes about yearly. We would wish to time it after that to get another yr of decreased charges.

There are a large number of shifting items and at the moment we’re a little bit too busy to determine all of it out. The excellent information is that we’ve got every other 7 or eight months determine it out. Look for every other article on the finish subsequent June that provides extra element on what our plans are.

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