Well, I will be retiring in four more days. Next Monday is my last full day of working here at the university. I started here 18 years ago only to get tuition remission for my children so that they could get a college education. I knew I would scrub floors if that was the only job opening.
However, I was hired to work in the Financial Aid Department and I stayed there for about a year and a half until my boss at the time did not accept my application to move into a different position. He told me I was doing too good of a job where I was. Well, that just didn't sit well with me so I applied for a job in another department. That other department happened to be philosophy.
I have been in the PL Dept. for about 16 years. Although I love working with students and the professors lead lives that are more exciting then all the soaps on TV, I was bored for the whole time. I was the secretary, administrative assistant, office manager, etc. and there still was not enough work for me especially through the long months of summer.
I could write a book regarding the happenings in the PL Dept. if I had the confidence in my writing skills. But then again, I would be divulging many of the things I was told in confidence and that would not be good. I suppose I could change all the names.......
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Welcome to your new venue of "freedom." I am sure it is well deserved afetr all those years of dedication and hard work. Realize it though, that many will look at you with some amount of envy because of your hard earned respite away from the trials and tribulations of the daily grind....
Others will also think...Another one's out to pasture...another liability.
Don't let that phase you one bit...We all get it...
Concentrate on you and your writing...Think about other blog spaces if writing is your favorite tune...You write good a lot better than most...The more you practice the better you'll get....[THUMBUP]
Ayes...
PS...A new blogster and a good friend of mine...Anacoana has opened shop here at blogster...Life Love and Eternity....Just type in Anacoana in blogster's search box above...She has a lot of wisdom to share...Uplifting too..[COOL]
How is this new life 'treating" you..? I have a very small book of "Irish blessings". Every time I read one, it reminds me of you. So yesterday, I wrote one down here, in Blogster, one that I dedicated to you, and to two other friends that are having a very tough situation.. No, I know your question.. I haven't called her.. I am too busy now, and,, well, still in a "recovering" process.. But I'm sure I will some day..
With fondness, gab[SMILE][HEART]
PS: I also live now in a townhome with a view to a lake (a pond, I would say..)
hope retirement is going well[THUMBUP]
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
I truely and sincerely hope that you've saved your money and gotten a good health insurance plan.
Now its time to break loose and have some fun![THUMBUP]
Much love, gabriella [HEART][HEART]