SNIPPETS DARI CAT CITY...: # VSS 2 HOMEMAKER.......

How time flies...felt like it was only yesterday that we celebrated New Year eve 2012 and now 2013 is just round the corner. We are in the last month of 2012 and in less than 2 weeks time we will be welcoming the New Year 2013.

And next year on 1st January 2013, will be my 10th anniversary being an official Home Maker. Never in my upper most mind that I will hold that post cos when I entered the working world about 30 yrs ago, I thought I would leave as a retiree at the age of 57 ......or is it 60 now???.....but it was already written as in the Bible "Everything that happens in this world happens at the time God chooses" Ecclesiastes 3:1. So who am I to disputes God's will.

It was a very difficult decision to make at that time.. to let go of a comfortable job at the bank with all the benefits thrown in. But with the dark cloud of economics recession looming at the Msian economy or in tis case the whole world, there was not much choice to consider.

I started with the Finance Company, but when it was forced to close down in the late nineties, the management offered Voluntary Separation Scheme (VSS) to the staff but I did not take up the first offer, so the remaining staff was seconded to the Bank. From there, we had two more VSS offers, so finally I guess it was about time for me to go too.. After I left I heard there were a few more VSS..... the Bank was doing the utmost Spring Cleaning to clear off all the cobwebs and dust to the very extreme.

Like I mentioned above, it was not an easy decision.... but now looking back I have no regrets. I felt that life is much, much better now. I'm able to spend lots of time with my kids and do anything I fancy without anyone breathing down my neck. I don't have to worry who will be fetching the kids from school or babysitting them when they were little and best of all I will be home to cook hot meals for my family when they come home from school or office. I realized now that God must be making up for my incomplete family life when I was little. He already had my life well planned except that I just did not see it back then. Every Cloud has a silver lining.

Financially, we survived and as I don't have anymore commitment...settled everything with the little monies that was paid to us VSS takers...I don't have any more month end worries such as bank loan, car installments and what not. Bills and other payments are my other half !!(hubby) responsibilities.