Redundancy and Early Retirement
My Journey
I worked in a minimum security correctional centre, teaching and managing education programs for male inmates for over 22 years.
I was made redundant in December 2016 and I look back at all the posts I wrote during this difficult time, from the announcement in May 2016 to my final week at work in December 2016.
‘You aren’t redundant — your job is redundant. You are still a much-loved, important, powerful and precious mother, husband, father, wife, person’.
We were important and we were valued by our colleagues and students. We worked hard for many years to improve the lives of our students. Senior management and Government ministers might not recognise or thank us for what we’ve accomplished, but luckily we know our own worth.
Writing these posts during this awful time helped me to cope, it gave me an outlet, a voice. Finding other bloggers in similar situations also helped.
Please feel free to contact me or leave me a message.
- I’m no shrinking violet – a colour challenge for #SundayStills
- Why Every Blogger Should Ensure They’ve Attached Their Blog To Their Gravatar
- Open Book Blog Hop for #WordyWednesday – what’s my action figure?
- Bright autumnal colour – and square!
- Happy and Bright – and square!
- Bright smiles – and square!
- Star light, star bright – and square!
- All things bright and delicious – and square!
- How I’m becoming #BOLD in 2021 – March reflections
- Golden views for all things bright and beautiful – and square
- All things bright and beautiful – and square Day #2
- All things bright and beautiful – and square!
- Atmospheric for #WordlessWednesday
- What makes you return to a blog again and again?
- #ShoutoutSaturday 9 – sharing joy, laughs, podcasts, love and thanks
- Blackberries growing wild in the forest
- Good books, good friends and good fun for #lifethisweek
- Various Shades of Green for #SundayStills
- #ShoutoutSaturday 8 – International Day of Happiness, March4Justice, Tumbarumba on Australian Story and our Rail Trail
- And so the sun sets on a glorious few weeks away #WordlessWednesday
- It’s not always black and white #SundayStills
- #ShoutoutSaturday 7 – IWD, travel, granny time and sisters
- Crikey! #WordlessWednesday
- 3 from 3 – rainy days for #SundayStills
- How becoming #BOLD is starting to agree with me – reflections on February
- Let’s go for a night ride #WordlessWednesday
- Taking Stock 1/2021 for #lifethisweek
- #ShoutoutSaturday 6 – a first birthday, old friends and Tumbafest
- What do a Penguin and a Magpie have in common? #SundayStills
- #ShoutoutSaturday 5 – books and a song to make you smile
- Wordy Wednesday – Where am I from?
- Self care in a virtual world for #lifethisweek
- Rosy Red Robins and other stories for #SundayStills
- #ShoutoutSaturday – Zooming, book clubbing, quotes from friends and plain old crazy women – what more could you ask for?
- Don’t get all prickly with me #WordlessWednesday
- Fallen over, in love, out of favour, down, from the sky for #SundayStills
- #ShoutoutSaturday – sometimes laughter is the best medicine
- How I am becoming #BOLD (and perhaps beautiful) in 2021 – January reflections
- How do sunflowers react to being left alone during a heatwave? #WordlessWednesday
- A travel photography challenge when you can’t actually travel
- Shout-out Saturday #2 in 2021 – awards, social influence, sea shanties and more
- Wordy Wednesday – Welcome into the World
- I cannot believe….
- A heatwave calls for some cool foggy, cloudy weather #SundayStills
- Do Sunflowers make you smile? – Wordless Wednesday
- Going back in time for #lifethisweek
- There’s nothing like an actual glacier to show off glacier blue for #SundayStills
- Shout-out Saturday is back in 2021
- Night lights for #SundayStills
- A perfectly uplifting Sunday
- A retrospective taking stock for #SundayStills
- Reading my way through 2020
- The wisdom of trees for Wordless Wednesday
- A look back at my world of blogging during 2020
- Remembering December 2020
- 60 years old and feeling BOLD! Sharing my WOTY for 2021
- What was the best decision you made in 2020?
- From my World to yours….
- Ready to jump ship – a year of jumping comes to an end!
- Happy Beddian Birthday to those of us born in 1960!
- Wordy Wednesday – It’s all about Ruby
- Shout Out Saturday #18 – An up and down week
- Wordy Wednesday – Furious Fiction
- Finding my MOJO in November – Jumping on board
- The texture of a tree for #SundayStills
- Shout Out Saturday #17 – Writing it all down
- Colour in the sky – Wordless Wednesday
- Taking Stock – a look at life today
- What are you thankful for in 2020? #SundayStills
- Shout Out Saturday #16 – Celebrating Premature babies, Flowers and Art
- Friday Fiction – what’s been read lately?
- A bridge to history – Wordless Wednesday
- Shout Out Saturday #15 – Memories
- Debbie On Turning 60 – Reflections on Riding the Waves of Life – Women Living Well After 50
- Wordy Wednesday – Blogging Friends
- How have you weathered the years? #SundayStills
- Shout Out Saturday #14 – keeping it real
- A one sided conversation – Wordless Wednesday
- Jump starting my way through October
- On the Spring Flower Festival Trail in Tumbarumba
- Shout Out Saturday #13 – keeping it local
- Walk for Prems 2020, or in my case, Ride for Prems. Be kind and generous – always!
- It takes all kinds – Wordless Wednesday
- Shout Out Saturday #12 – Keeping it in the family
- Morning sunshine and a cute cottage garden – Wordless Wednesday
- Where’s your happy place?
- Shout Out Saturday #11 – Be Kind
- Kind of mesmerising – Wordless Wednesday
- I have never….
- Painting faces with Ochre for #SundayStills
- Shout Out Saturday#10 – the Deborra-Lee Furness and Hugh Jackman edition!
- If you could rule the world for a day, what would you change?
- Light at the end of the tunnel? – Wordless Wednesday
- Not every paradise is tropical – a dry run!
- Shout Out Saturday#9 – self care and sharing
- Finding different ways of jumping through September due to a dodgy knee
- Where the bush meets the beach – Wordless Wednesday
- Before you give up, think about why you held on so long
- Shout Out Saturday#8 – who deserves a shout out??
- Sweetness and light – Wordless Wednesday
- I’m no shrinking violet – a colour challenge for #SundayStills
- Why Every Blogger Should Ensure They’ve Attached Their Blog To Their Gravatar
- Open Book Blog Hop for #WordyWednesday – what’s my action figure?
- Bright autumnal colour – and square!
- Happy and Bright – and square!
- Bright smiles – and square!
- Star light, star bright – and square!
- All things bright and delicious – and square!
- How I’m becoming #BOLD in 2021 – March reflections
- Golden views for all things bright and beautiful – and square
- All things bright and beautiful – and square Day #2
- All things bright and beautiful – and square!
- Atmospheric for #WordlessWednesday
- What makes you return to a blog again and again?
- #ShoutoutSaturday 9 – sharing joy, laughs, podcasts, love and thanks
- Blackberries growing wild in the forest
- Good books, good friends and good fun for #lifethisweek
- Various Shades of Green for #SundayStills
- #ShoutoutSaturday 8 – International Day of Happiness, March4Justice, Tumbarumba on Australian Story and our Rail Trail
- And so the sun sets on a glorious few weeks away #WordlessWednesday
- It’s not always black and white #SundayStills
- #ShoutoutSaturday 7 – IWD, travel, granny time and sisters
- Crikey! #WordlessWednesday
- 3 from 3 – rainy days for #SundayStills
- How becoming #BOLD is starting to agree with me – reflections on February
- Let’s go for a night ride #WordlessWednesday
- Taking Stock 1/2021 for #lifethisweek
- #ShoutoutSaturday 6 – a first birthday, old friends and Tumbafest
- What do a Penguin and a Magpie have in common? #SundayStills
- #ShoutoutSaturday 5 – books and a song to make you smile
- Wordy Wednesday – Where am I from?
- Self care in a virtual world for #lifethisweek
- Rosy Red Robins and other stories for #SundayStills
- #ShoutoutSaturday – Zooming, book clubbing, quotes from friends and plain old crazy women – what more could you ask for?
- Don’t get all prickly with me #WordlessWednesday
- Fallen over, in love, out of favour, down, from the sky for #SundayStills
- #ShoutoutSaturday – sometimes laughter is the best medicine
- How I am becoming #BOLD (and perhaps beautiful) in 2021 – January reflections
- How do sunflowers react to being left alone during a heatwave? #WordlessWednesday
- A travel photography challenge when you can’t actually travel
- Shout-out Saturday #2 in 2021 – awards, social influence, sea shanties and more
- Wordy Wednesday – Welcome into the World
- I cannot believe….
- A heatwave calls for some cool foggy, cloudy weather #SundayStills
- Do Sunflowers make you smile? – Wordless Wednesday
- Going back in time for #lifethisweek
- There’s nothing like an actual glacier to show off glacier blue for #SundayStills
- Shout-out Saturday is back in 2021
- Night lights for #SundayStills
- A perfectly uplifting Sunday
- A retrospective taking stock for #SundayStills
- Reading my way through 2020
- The wisdom of trees for Wordless Wednesday
- A look back at my world of blogging during 2020
- Remembering December 2020
- 60 years old and feeling BOLD! Sharing my WOTY for 2021
- What was the best decision you made in 2020?
- From my World to yours….
- Ready to jump ship – a year of jumping comes to an end!
- Happy Beddian Birthday to those of us born in 1960!
- Wordy Wednesday – It’s all about Ruby
- Shout Out Saturday #18 – An up and down week
- Wordy Wednesday – Furious Fiction
- Finding my MOJO in November – Jumping on board
- The texture of a tree for #SundayStills
- Shout Out Saturday #17 – Writing it all down
- Colour in the sky – Wordless Wednesday
- Taking Stock – a look at life today
- What are you thankful for in 2020? #SundayStills
- Shout Out Saturday #16 – Celebrating Premature babies, Flowers and Art
- Friday Fiction – what’s been read lately?
- A bridge to history – Wordless Wednesday
- Shout Out Saturday #15 – Memories
- Debbie On Turning 60 – Reflections on Riding the Waves of Life – Women Living Well After 50
- Wordy Wednesday – Blogging Friends
- How have you weathered the years? #SundayStills
- Shout Out Saturday #14 – keeping it real
- A one sided conversation – Wordless Wednesday
- Jump starting my way through October
- On the Spring Flower Festival Trail in Tumbarumba
- Shout Out Saturday #13 – keeping it local
- Walk for Prems 2020, or in my case, Ride for Prems. Be kind and generous – always!
- It takes all kinds – Wordless Wednesday
- Shout Out Saturday #12 – Keeping it in the family
- Morning sunshine and a cute cottage garden – Wordless Wednesday
- Where’s your happy place?
- Shout Out Saturday #11 – Be Kind
- Kind of mesmerising – Wordless Wednesday
- I have never….
- Painting faces with Ochre for #SundayStills
- Shout Out Saturday#10 – the Deborra-Lee Furness and Hugh Jackman edition!
- If you could rule the world for a day, what would you change?
- Light at the end of the tunnel? – Wordless Wednesday
- Not every paradise is tropical – a dry run!
- Shout Out Saturday#9 – self care and sharing
- Finding different ways of jumping through September due to a dodgy knee
- Where the bush meets the beach – Wordless Wednesday
- Before you give up, think about why you held on so long
- Shout Out Saturday#8 – who deserves a shout out??
- Sweetness and light – Wordless Wednesday
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