I finished working on the 19 Aug 2008, it was a shaky end to my 49 year working life!
My occupation in earlier life was a mechanic, and repaired the island ambulances for many years and was always on call, I ended up in the hospital transport department delivering store and transporting staff and residents, until the smaller hospitals were closed and I was moved to the stores on internal deliveries.
By then in 2009 I was going through a very bad time because my new Filipino wife had disappeared after our 2008 marriage in the Philippines.
Her family thought I had done something to upset her and kept asking me for info, I knew nothing and was so bad at work they made me retire a year early at 64.
It turned out she was with a Filipino boyfriend and was pregnant, so keeping away from everybody,
She did eventually arrive here and said nothing about the boyfriend or baby, but said she had lost the money I had left with her as she wanted to arrange her own flight her and was working to save up to pay for another flight, of course I ended up paying for it again.
Her heart was not in the marriage and she left me to stay with other Filipino's ensnare, we then divorced.
After a bad few months I settled into life alone again, and engrossed myself in my hobbies, my dog Charlie,
family tree research, Island (Isle of Wight) local history, in which I mad DVD slide shows and sold them for charity and general computer rebuilding and using.
Now in 2017 it is nearly 9 years since I worked, I am never without something to do to occupy myself, the family tree can take every hour you have and I normally do 3 or 4 hours a day on it.
Time passes very quickly I am still an early riser and make to most of every day.
Mick.
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