Things you can’t do when you’ve left work: recover from a hangover on someone else’s time take a sicky to drink lager and play Vice City while eating leftover curry work from home – a euphemism for snoozing, daytime television, and hanging out with people while sending the odd email to convince people that you […]

Get stuffed – don’t be so offensive. It’s a bit like asking if you enjoy getting drunk and driving cars through school playgrounds – something that was socially acceptable to your parents’ generation, but not to your own. Don’t drink and drive (even if it is fun), and don’t go travelling. Travelling is whack. “But

It’s odd leaving a routine that you’ve had for a sixth of your life. Something you’ve been doing for three quarters of your working years. There’s a mix of excitement, emptiness, confusion and the sense that time is moving at different speeds on an hourly basis as you approach omega. I’d engineered my last week