The Retirement Newsletter: Ten weeks and counting, and should I launch a paid newsletter

Issue Number: -10 — Well, not quite….

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Welcome

Welcome to issue -10 — ten weeks to go until I retire (or is it), and having done the pension maths, I have discovered I can retire, but a bit of extra income would be helpful.

Ten weeks and counting

I did it.

I have handed in my notice.

I later discovered I had resigned to the wrong person and had to resign again a couple of days later. So, last week, I resigned twice from the same job.

I found writing the resignation letter difficult. After two or three goes, I asked chatGPT to write it for me, and it did a good job. All it needed was an edit and a polish, and it was ready.

I’m officially counting down to the day I hang up my chalk and leave the lecture theatre.

Actually, I have never used chalk. I’ve used pens and whiteboards, but most of my early teaching involved using slides and overheads (who remembers overhead projectors?). Later, I moved to using PowerPoint with a data projector, and I ditched PowerPoint as soon as Apple Keynote came along. I’ve only used chalk when visiting schools in Malaysia…