20, 15, 10, 5, 1...
kass_rants did it to me.
20 years ago... (1987) I was working as a customer service/support/installation monkey for an IT company selling accounting software. I was learning all sorts of things about this newfangled idea of computer networks, and also how to dodge a boss with far too much imagination for anyone's good. Eventually that led to changing jobs, landing me in the manufacturing world which was the best thing I ever did, career-wise.
15 years ago... (1992) I was newly arrived in New Zealand, had got a job and was living in a rabbit hutch. Life was good, in that exciting new country way. Learning to live in English again, getting used to the differences between NZ and England.
10 years ago... (1997) I moved in with my now-husband who arrived in the country earlier that year.
5 years ago... (2002) I was visiting the 'old country' with my two kids, ElderM was two and YoungerM two months as we got on the plane. Husband stayed behind in NZ to run the company on his own for ten weeks.
1 year ago...(2006) Living in Wellington, busily building up the Swedish School along with raising kids, renovating house and generally swimming, not drowning.
There's that bit in between those landmarks involving divorce and homelessness, the alcoholic boss, and a few other hiccups, but they were all part of the character building excercises. There's also (re)marriage, some excellent career paths, the births of my beautiful children, some fundamental choices about life priorities which turned out to be absolutely right, the decision to start our own company, the decision to get out again while we could still choose, and the move to Wellington. SCA wise there was a spell as founding B&B, four peerages between us, and all sorts of goodness.
Looking back, I've led a charmed life. Long may it continue.