[Year 12 IPM] Who will still be here in ten years time?

[Andrew Shortell]

Hi to all still breathing smog

I too took a tree change last year, and took a position at Braemar where
I am utterly unimportant and just teach.

It is really nice to just teach, leave school at 3:30pm, not arrive
until 8:30am and not have to worry about how anything is running.
And now that I am 47 (still below the average age of teachers in
Victoria) I need to slow down and spend time with my daughter as she has
now started school.... retirement? I will have to wait until my daughter
goes to uni but oh well, I started late.

And I am teaching an all IT load ..  a nice thing I can tell you.

Happy smog breathing...   ;-)

Andrew Shortell
Braemar College 


-----Original Message-----
From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au]
On Behalf Of Robert Timmer-Arends
Sent: Wednesday, 18 January 2006 7:26 PM
To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
Teachers'Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Year 12 IPM] Who will still be here in ten years time?

Hello Mark and others

> Is Janelle possibly the first of the Baby Boomers that are to leave
the IT
teaching profession over the next 10 years? The industry and the IT
teaching
community is set to change dramatically as the many 50+ year olds follow
Janelle into semi of full retirement?
> I turned 50 last year and have found myself actually thinking I should
plan for retirement.
> How many are prepared to own up to being the wrong side of 50?
>
I too tipped over the other side of 50 last year and for the first time
since I came into teaching I won't be teaching mainstream IT this year.
I
have to say, though, that I'm not too disappointed - at heart I'm a
computer
science type and all this froth and bubble applications stuff has worn a
bit
thin!

Regards
Robert T-A
Brighton SC


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