Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye ...
Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye by Vera Lynn
... is what I should have used for the parting song I offered to the folks at the company I left last week, a place where I'd worked for more than half my life. Instead, I gave them a dose of We'll Meet Again. Both Vera Lynn songs, and both, no doubt, sufficiently outdated as to be meaningless to the folks I more-or-less left behind.
We'll Meet Again by Vera Lynn
I won't get into why I up and left, but suffice it to say that I was not happy. I figure that after a few weeks of solitude and meditation, I'll have more positive views of the whole thing. So, to reflect this, I also left them all with the Edith Piaf classic, Non, Je ne Regrette Rien.
Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien by Edith Piaf
Most likely, I should have also left them with another Vera Lynn song, a rather corny one, but one geared toward combating high levels of stress and uncertainty, Be Like the Kettle and Sing.
Be Like The Kettle And Sing by Vera Lynn
In the coming weeks, I may begin to document my unemployment chronicles. We'll see.
