After working as a Leader, Architect and Developer for the past 25 years, I am looking for a slower pace of life. Corporate life has sucked the energy out of me. Whilst I am not suffering from burn-out, I know that my eagerness to please clients has dropped the edge of a cliff. I am lucky, so lucky that I am in a financial position to re-evaluate and re-position myself to a new less demanding career. I did very well during my professional career and built some really useful apps. But in the last job I had I suffered from clients who were not forward looking. Corporate giants that were not prepared to step outside of the rails or look at things in a new light. This restriction was hurting me, as previously, I was either working in my own start up or had carte-blanche to build products as a contract consultant. I have invested well and looked after my pension for these years, I am little short of 55 (today I am 52), so I am not ready to totally retire. Yet, I can have a rest period and reduce my working commitment.

My plan is simple I have a small business - beekeeping (Maes Gwyn Hives) - this year I will have eight hives. Way short of being a financial replacement for role as a Senior IT leader, but a small revenue earner. I will do this, and I will post about my business and its growth. I will also look for some IT Consultancy and build a blog site about Algorithms. Hopefully this will produce enough to get by. Fingers crossed and into this darkness I jump.