Today I am retiring. I reached that magic 65 a couple of months ago but today has arrived faster than I thought it would.
Retirement for me means the end of formal employment, but I'll still be blogging here and there. Perhaps a little more there than here, because that really is my passion.
I've been in teaching/education now for 43 years and that is a long time in anybody's language but when you add the years when I was a teaching scholar/pre-service teacher it comes to nearly 50.
I have been lucky that I have always enjoyed what I have been paid to do, and particularly, in the last 10 or so years when I have worked with Education.au/Education Services Australia, there has been considerable overlap with the work I have done and my private learning curve. Working here I have represented a great ministerial company and travelled all over Australia and represented the company twice overseas. I have worked with great people, both face2face and virtually, and been given great latitude.
So, no regrets. Don't shed any tears for me. I'm not. I'm looking forward to the future. A rosy one, with some travel coming up next week - off to Abu Dhabi to meet the new grandson, then to a crime fiction convention in Bristol, and then back to AD for my daughter's 30th birthday. And then back to OZ to deliver about 6 presentations on e-books.
So I'll be back here on this blog. Hang around.
1 comment:
Kerrie
There comes a time when you have to take stock of your life and its acchievements. In your case its has indeed been a full life embracing education in all its forms and formats.... a true Dean of Education. Knowing you, I'm sure yours is not a retirement; you simply ease into a life of leisurely pursuits. Good luck for the future and enjoy your time with the family
Nick
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