{"id":2657,"date":"2024-12-17T11:49:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T19:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2024-12-17T14:31:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T22:31:14","slug":"retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2024\/12\/17\/retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Reposted from <a href=\"http:\/\/basil.ca\">basil.CA<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next year, at summer&#8217;s end, I will be retiring from <a href=\"http:\/\/kpu.ca\">Kwantlen Polytechnic University.<\/a> I will remain open to other contract opportunities elsewhere after that, but this will be it for me as a full-time prof. The decision conveys my acceptance that I am just not the marvellous teacher I used to be: The oil in my olive is no longer extra-virgin, and my students and I share fewer and fewer references in culture and in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A friend wrote me earlier: &#8220;Give a special mindfulness to every day in the classroom.&nbsp;These years that defined you will no longer be your lifescape.&nbsp; You are a teacher and took that as a trade and an obligation quite&nbsp;seriously and you got a lot of joy from it.&nbsp;Just savour all the days between now and when you&#8217;re over the wall.&#8221; I will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Addendum: I expect that NoContest.CA will go on well after my retirement. Indeed, I hope to expand its reach once I have more time to spend here.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reposted from basil.CA: 2025 Next year, at summer&#8217;s end, I will be retiring from Kwantlen Polytechnic University. I will remain open to other contract opportunities elsewhere after that, but this will be it for me as a full-time prof. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2024\/12\/17\/retirement\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-2657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-posts","tag-relationship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2665,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions\/2665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}