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The Retirement Newsletter: Happy New Year — am I starting my last full calendar year in employment?

Issue Number: -56 — Wishing everyone a great 2023

Nick
6 min readDec 25, 2022
Happy 2023
Photo by Author — Happy New Year

Welcome

Welcome to issue -56 — Happy New Year!

Hopefully, you had a good Christmas.

We are now in the “doldrums” between Christmas and New Year. I’ve always found this time of year to be odd. It feels like a state of limbo — waiting — but waiting for what?

Anyway, Happy New Year.

I hope 2023 turns out to be a good one.

This week, I will ponder my last full year in employment and look back at last year’s New Year Resolutions and Predictions. Plus, I will make some predictions and resolutions for 2023.

And, if all goes to plan, this time next year, I will only have a month or so until I retire. (Remember, I have a weird issue numbering scheme on these newsletters that counts down the weeks until I retire — issue -56, so 56 weeks until I retire. Scary.)

Happy New Year

Can it be 2023?

It doesn’t seem possible.

Now, when I say 2023, I have to check myself because 2023 sounds like I’m living in the future. But…

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Nick
Nick

Written by Nick

A scientist and an educator that is planning for the future. The story of my journey from employed to semi-retired and on to fully retired.

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