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The Retirement Newsletter: One hundred weeks out
Welcome
Welcome to issue -100. Yes, only 100 weeks to go until I retire and next week, I drop from minus triple digits on the newsletter to two. It feels like retirement is getting closer.
Recently, I complained to a friend, who has been retired for six months, that I still had 100 weeks to go until I retire. They assured me that the time would fly by. But, having sat through six hours of back-to-back meetings and calls this week, that 100 weeks can’t go by fast enough.
Well, 100 weeks seems like a long time, but also a short amount of time.
Two weeks ago, I realised that I had entered the “penultimate” and “final” stages of my career. I was doing some things for the penultimate time and some for the final time.
A few weeks ago, I was setting up some teaching, and I realised that next year would be the last time I delivered the material.
The students who started this academic year (2021), I will not see graduate. My last ‘class’ was the class that began in 2020, and some of them I won’t see graduate if they go out on placement. (Side note, undergraduate degrees in the UK are usually three years. The class that started…
