https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-now-back-at-work-after-4-months-off Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Fri, 15 May 2026 06:11:50 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-now-back-at-work-after-4-months-off#post-2412996 Fri, 15 May 2026 04:07:15 +0000 JAileen 2412996@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p><div>Very nice outfit! &nbsp;The pants are awesome, I love toffee boots, too.</div><div><br /></div>I really admire how you keep track of your wears. &nbsp;I wrote down mine for six months, or so, but then never did anything with it. &nbsp;I suppose I did get a sense of what I was wearing. &nbsp;<div><br /></div><div>When I stopped working I mostly gardened and volunteered at our son’s high school, helping the band teacher. &nbsp;</p> <p></div> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-now-back-at-work-after-4-months-off#post-2412995 Fri, 15 May 2026 04:05:11 +0000 Jenni NZ 2412995@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yes Lise when I sold I was required to stay and work for them another 2 years to help maintain the goodwill I had built up which they had bought, but I actually stayed 4 years.<br /> It’s nice being a contractor now at the new place and I can pretty much leave whenever I feel like it, I would of course give them at least a month’s notice to be polite. Moving continents possibly helped you to let go! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-now-back-at-work-after-4-months-off#post-2412993 Fri, 15 May 2026 03:26:31 +0000 Star (Lise) 2412993@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I love the colour toffee, especially in the cooler months.<br /> Wonderful that you found a solution that works so well for you. In my case, when I walked away from the Recruitment business I founded and ran for 25 years I didn't look back. I was ready. The industry had changed dramatically over that time and was far less enjoyable. I also moved continents so that played a major role in my acceptance too. If I was still in SA I probably would not have retired. I was my business IYKWIM. I had to rediscover who I was minus my business identity. No regrets.<br /> Personally I would have found it challenging to have remained in my business but not in the driver's seat. Maybe it's a good thing you found another solution. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-now-back-at-work-after-4-months-off#post-2412988 Fri, 15 May 2026 02:51:11 +0000 Jenni NZ 2412988@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Cheers, thanks Lisa! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-now-back-at-work-after-4-months-off#post-2412987 Fri, 15 May 2026 02:49:35 +0000 Lisa 2412987@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>A lovely outfit for this next phase of your career. The brown shades are very pretty on you and perfect for fall and the tan booties tie the brown colors together perfectly. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-now-back-at-work-after-4-months-off#post-2412984 Fri, 15 May 2026 02:27:27 +0000 Jenni NZ 2412984@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I should add that I am now doing 2 half-days, 4 hours at a time, twice a week. So it’s much less than the old hours before July last year of 3 full days a week. I wasn’t quite ready to give up my professional identity altogether and crunch time was coming this month to pay for my practising certificate, insurance, professional memberships etc. so I have paid for them all for another year and the first pay will go towards covering those! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-now-back-at-work-after-4-months-off#post-2412983 Fri, 15 May 2026 02:17:12 +0000 Jenni NZ 2412983@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hi all, hope this won’t end up being too off- topic as I also want to share my experience of sort of trying retirement out and see how others have felt!<br /> Thankfully I still had all my work clothes as I still wear them at the weekends sometimes. I have never been a “corporate” dresser as I have always worked in a suburb with families and patients of all ages. As not a hospital I have not worn scrubs for 40 years since I moved into the community, during the start of the pandemic I wore PPE if seeing unwell people.<br /> So, in December I left the family doctor practice where I had worked for 34 years, but which I had sold in 2021. I was actually unwell some of last year and had surgery in July so had only come back half a day a week, which then didn’t feel enough, like “too many cooks will spoil the broth”- others looking at results I had ordered etc. I had January to April fully off, enjoying a trip to Queenstown for sister’s 60th birthday and also a week in Fiji over that time. Husband Neil also sold the vet clinic he had owned for 29 years at the end of January but is helping for some months by covering a young vet’s maternity leave.<br /> My old practice has been merged into another one 3 km further away as well, and driving 10 km instead of 7 km down one of Auckland’s busiest roads didn’t appeal either.<br /> So now I am week 2 in a different practice only 3 km from home with great staff parking but also on only one bus route rather than two, if I choose.<br /> Enjoying it so far.<br /> It’s autumn here and getting colder, they also run the aircon too cold in the new place.<br /> Today’s outfit:<br /> 2022 “Random” brand toffee merino, 42 wears.<br /> 2023 Joseph Ribkoff pants, 114 wears.<br /> 2018 Stitch Ministry bronze cardigan, my favourite cardigan. 223 wears!<br /> 2025 Pikolinos tan booties, now 16 wears.<br /> Necklace bought by me 2009.<br /> Thanks for looking! </p>