My Boss Just Quit

Life is like a box of chocolates.

A photo of my desk this week | Photo by author

You never know what you’re going to get.

Since posting my first Medium article back in March 2020, my life has gone through a few ups and downs. My last update came in December 2022 when I shared about my partner going through breast cancer and a career shift into project management. One of those was great, the other not so much.

I’m a 39-year-old, living in a southern suburb of Auckland, New Zealand.

I like to work out and I’m passionate about fitness. I write most of my articles about health, nutrition, and exercise.

I love rugby, basketball, and music with loud guitars. I wrote my thesis about the consumption of rock concerts.

I have a son who turns 20 in September.

Now that I’m not such a stranger, you have some context for this article, which is a bit of a life update.

Anyway, here it is.

Break up, redundancy, and the move

Since then, said girlfriend become my ex-girlfriend and I was made redundant around the same time.

Life has a funny way of being a bit of a prick.

In New Zealand, we have a saying called “Nek Minnit”.