I intended to retire in two years time but all of a sudden I have decided to retire at once and take a little part time job to tide me over. I am very impulsive please pray for me , I am very impulsive that I am not doing something really stupid.
I saw something spooky last night..at least I think I did in the early hours when I was working. About 4am I was called out to get notes fro a child who had just been admitted to ward. The notes where on a part of the hospital that is really, really old, maybe two hundred years old and looks it; Victorian. It is an administration centre out there on it's own, no Doctors nurses or patients. No one is ever there at night certainly not a 4am. It would remind you of Harry Potter, old , old with many nooks and crannies. I have been over there many times and was even a little bit nervous, I love old. Anyway to access this area I have to go through a series of two security doors which open by my swipe card. Anyway as I got near them there was these noises. The two security doors were swinging back and forwards on their own . I could understand one door maybe defaulting but two separate ones? Also this place is full of people during the day , there is no way way they would let security access doors fail like this without them getting fixed at once. So that means they started opening and closing like this during the night. I started feeling nervous going through them into the building and as I did so I distinctly heard a child near me kind of talking and laughing... Well it made me pray. When I got back to the main building I told the guy I work with what had happened but he just looked at me blankly. He is a person or no Faith, an Apostate Catholic. I think such folk have no way to process such information. This is the spot here where it happened: The first door which was swinging opened and closed is behind them; Old, old, old.
Prayers. I am in a similar boat! (I was forced out in June). Still trying to figure out what’s next- sabbatical, part /full time? , Consulting, something completely different or full time grandpa.
I kind of think if we remember to pray, to ask Our Lady then everything is fine. I saw the most wonderful article on the way Mary works as a Mother this morning. https://mysticpost.com/2021/09/this...ich-carries-me-to-you-is-mysterious-but-real/ “My motherly love which carries me to you is mysterious but real.”
In case you missed it. The most interesting article with Tucker Carlson. He has never had a TV. His father would not allow it. he made them read books instead. He also never goes on the internet. Amazing. I suspect a strong Spiritual influence here:
Your experience was chilling. I will pray to the Holy Spirit to guide you Padraig. With everything that is happening in the healthcare world, retirement may be a gift.
Fascinating - I have also had the strong urge to do likewise - I have been in touch with a financial advisor to look into my pension arrangements with the view to retiring from teaching after this school year 2021-2022. I am trying to persuade my wife (who is a nurse) to go along with this that we both cash in our lump sums, get our pensions and top up with part time work. My thinking is that if we wait five or six years there may be no pension pot so we may as well put it to use now in paying off the mortgage. At least we will own our own house and be mortgage free. I will pray for you, Padraig
Our place is in a terrible state at the moment. Whole groups of people are off on the sick. Form what I am seeing it is not just the hospitals are like this. yet there is nothing at all on the media about it. It reminds me of the official video for REM. 'Everybody hurts'..it's a though folks were just giving up and walking away...and this is only early Autumn.
[QUOTE="padraig, post: 353300, member: 2"]I saw something spooky last night..at least I think I did in the early hours when I was working. About 4am I was called out to get notes fro a child who had just been admitted to ward. The notes where on a part of the hospital that is really, really old, maybe two hundred years old and looks it; Victorian. It is an administration centre out there on it's own, no Doctors nurses or patients. No one is ever there at night certainly not a 4am. It would remind you of Harry Potter, old , old with many nooks and crannies. I have been over there many times and was even a little bit nervous, I love old. Anyway to access this area I have to go through a series of two security doors which open by my swipe card. Anyway as I got near them there was these noises. The two security doors were swinging back and forwards on their own . I could understand one door maybe defaulting but two separate ones? Also this place is full of people during the day , there is no way way they would let security access doors fail like this without them getting fixed at once. So that means they started opening and closing like this during the night. I started feeling nervous going through them into the building and as I did so I distinctly heard a child near me kind of talking and laughing... Well it made me pray. When I got back to the main building I told the guy I work with what had happened but he just looked at me blankly. He is a person or no Faith, an Apostate Catholic. I think such folk have no way to process such information. This is the spot here where it happened: The first door which was swinging opened and closed is behind them; Old, old, old. [/QUOTE] Don't go back there. That place is afflicted.
Hi Padraig. Do you have to decide right away? I would wait a few weeks and see if you don't change your mind. Maybe try to find that part time job first and then retire. Jesus, help Padraig make the right decision.
I will pray for you along with prayers for Padraig tonight to know what to do.i retired early ftom teaching. I have never regretted it.
Randomly off topic re retirement padraig but the floor and stairs in that old part of the hospital were laid by my father
Certainly sounds like a spontaneous decision Padraig. I'd do the same if I wasn't 6 years away. I pray it's God's Will you are aligning with in your decision.
Padraig sounds like one of my locations doing security in Boston. It's at a super old building. Almost feel like your being watched. I heard a cat noise or meow but I knew instinctively it wasn't in the building or outside. Creepy. It was an overnight shift.
I will pray for your discernment padraig. I was thinking about your predicament and that the EU is much like like the US in that many people who live in climates such as yours (UK, Ireland, etc) which is much like here in Washington state. 9 months of rain and cloudy skies and then 3 months of brilliant beautiful summer in a lush green land spend half the year down south and the summers at home after retiring. With the advent of all this nonsense with travel restrictions that is going to come to an end for anyone who doesn't go along with the program. I know that the WEF was talking about common pass being implemented in the US last year but it ended up a huge flop. The app has only 100k downloads and horrible reviews thankfully.
