Finally

Finally, 
after all these working years. 

Finally I feel some pride. 

All these years of thinking; 

Work is life ,
not the other way round. 

Finally I feel some pride. 

Now,  please don't get me wrong. 
Every job I have ever done, 
I have done with pride. 

To my best ability, 
I just put the bigger picture aside. 

Strange how the winds of fate blow wild. 

Carer, through necessity,  for far too many years. 
Professional help needed now, 
so suddenly free . 

The fates blow wild and free. 

Something bigger planned for me . 

Opportunity. 

This, my tiny island nation, needs new homes. 
They have to be good homes. 

This our beautiful planet, already hurting now, 
cannot endure more harm. 
A new way of clean building, 
takes new kinds of builders, 
new minds. 

Passive housing, costing no money, 
doing the planet no harm. 

New minded people need to be trained. 

I now work for Toolshed. 

We take young people. 
16 to 18 ish,
that did not fit at school, 
we train them in construction skills. 

Offer a future for them to find. 

Now that future has changed. 
The training has to change. 

Toolshed will be building houses. 
Passive houses. 
Young futures. 

I am construction marketing manager. 
I am full of so much pride. 

We start the first house in October. 
I shall probably cry. 

Let their futures fly.