h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Oh dear, I think that I might have a job. It seems that my days of highly paid consultancy work, together with moderately paid agency work (and my lots of unpaid arsing around; which has been great fun, but doesn't pay the bills) might be coming to an end.

I've got an interview for a Finance Manager job at a local Housing Charity on Wednesday morning, and I've been told that I'm a pretty strong favourite to land it.

The job looks like good fun. As it's a small organisation; the range of work and responsibilities will be wide. Also, sadly, because it's a small organisation and in the charitable sector; the pay will be small and not very significant - I didn't know you could earn so little money as a qualified accountant . But hey-ho, do it for eighteen months and then bugger off and do something else instead.

I've looked upon this year as good fun. As taking a years retirement whilst I was still young enough to enjoy it. As a year to get well again, and then to re-enter the nine-to-five that the rest of you all enjoy.

There there

No chance of doing it part-time and spend the rest of the time being a highly paid consultant and / or arsing around?

Just an idea from one who has never really recovered from early retirement at 36 ... and then again at 43... now working part time as a highly paid consultant. I really recommend it

Work Everybody should have a year off. I've had a couple as it happens - one of them only two years after I began full time work

I took 7 years off - ok so I was working part time, but that was for my dad, so it wasn't *real* work. It's a bit of a shock going back to full time work. Good luck!

It would be lovely to carry on being a highly paid consultant. However the problem is that when you take what I've earnt, and annualize it out over say a 40 hour working week, it comes to rather less than the minimum wage