The dust is settling

Changes at the top. One prepared but one is never really prepared. People see you differently when they are in opposition. "I never really trusted you" the new man said when I met him on Monday. "But now I can see that you have potential - you're someone I think (his italics) we can work with."

Isn't such everywhere. 

Colleagues have been on the phone all week. One called to say that he'd been summoned upstairs for a chat. Turned out to be something different altogether. "I know we're not meant to work this way but I feel that it's time for a parting of the ways. Clearly, we need to talk money. I will, of course, say that you have made a massive contribution to our organisation, that you've taken it to places we never dreamed possible and I'll leave plenty of blanks so that you can blah-blah to your hearts content. Bottom line: your cardboard box is over there."

But it isn't like that here - thankfully. I still have a mortgage "and so much I want to do". 

So we've met on and off all week. Tell me Leader what you want me to do, just tell me...