I'm going, leaving, out-the-door, vamoose. My choice; after 15 years here, I've accepted another job. I'm working my notice now. To some, my father included, it seems odd to have done it. But I do have reasons, positive ones. Besides, others have made far more dramatic career moves than this; I'm only changing practice. In industry, I might well already have been invited to pack my things and go. Gardening leave, they call it; so commonplace now, it carries no shame. Indeed the opposite; I have a brother who has luxuriated in this form of extended break from work several times in recent years, long enough to get his book completed even. He is regarded with envy for his achievement -and I am not referring to the novel there.
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