Happy birthday to me! Yes, two years on, and the odd job man is still doing jobs and being....well, male and odd. Round about the time of my business's birthday, I was invited to attend a family wedding, and had to wear a suit. After two years of not wearing one, I was initially pleased that I still fitted into it! But actually, it wasn't the greatest experience ever. I mean, the wedding was fine, but wearing a suit? Nah, don't miss that at all. Which prompted me to come up with the top 10 list of things I don't miss about being in an office:

1. People who have spent too much time on assertiveness courses (actually, I still come across one or two of them, but now I have the freedom  to just laugh at them and walk away!)
2. School bullies dressed up as business leaders. You know who you are. Or if you don't, it's probably because nobody dares tell you, 'cause you're such a bully!
3. Suits. And cufflinks. They look great, but is it worth the effort?
4. Office politics.
5. Buffet lunches - and people who organise meetings at lunch time just so that they can order a buffet lunch. Taste great, but there's a limit to how much mayo I can eat and still get through the door!
6. 256 emails a day, especially those from people in a completely different time zone who then complain when you don't reply immediately.
7. So-called managers who were spookily like the chap in "The Office"...
8. Having to be nice to people whose power-to-intelligence ratio was way out of line...
9. The "why is your office is 0.2 square metres bigger than mine?" mentality.
10. Watered-down armadillo excrement being described as coffee...