A Five Year Plan, well technically a 4 year plan now.

Two things that have been gnawing at the back of my mind today, slowly revolving and bumping about in a Brownian Motion stylee, and surfacing now and again.

The first: Why do people have the time to blog and write stuff and be on Twitter and everything.
The second: What am I going to do with the rest of my life. I don't want to be in IT for ever. Plus there's the vineyard thing.

So to address them in order:

1. Simple, there are a number of explanations for it (I won't try and list them all). Unemployed, or already living the writing dream (or associated job related to writing), at home raising children, retired, or (and probably the most common) sciving off doing their paid job of work and farting about on the internet. Which leads rather neatly into the second one.

2. The 5 year plan! Well, as my current job post is for 5 years, I thought that this would be a good time to be able to take stock of life and see where it was heading. Now, the potential to emigrate to Australia is still there, and more so than ever before as my dad would quite like me to take over the reigns on the wine business one day and it would be best for me to at least have a working knowledge of the business before that happens. He's not getting any younger you know! And neither am I, so as long as the reason is valid, the age thing shouldn;t count against me too much. But further to that is this writing thing that I keep wanting to do and keep thinking about and looking at and not ever starting or anything. So here was my thought that's been rolling around. 5 years from now I want to be on the last legs of heading out to Australia.

But, i'm not sure I want to keep doing IT, so what else can I do? Plus I know it's not for ever, but then how long is a piece of string. It's taken dad 10 years to get to the stage whereby he can relax the number of days he has to work, to keep the vineyard ticking over. I don't want that! No, I want to be able to blog when i want, to twitter when i want, or to whatever when I want. To do that I need freedom, financial freedom. So, I now have 5 years to get this writing thing sorted, to allow me to play vineyard owner too, because it's a pretty full on job as well.

This last thought led me onto the disturbing thought that I wouldn;t have time to write because of the vineyard and juggling a normal job as well, but that's even more of a spur to get established, so that becomes my main job and the vines are the hobby.

Ok, so it's all a bit airy fairy and the details are sketchy at best, but it's a start. I've never really had a 5 year plan before, not one that's reasonably achievable at any rate. is it do-able?

Watch this space, i guess.