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.
- Where I walk #WordlessWednesday
- Things are looking up #TreeSquare!
- The boogey man in the form of a tree#TreeSquare!
- Geometry in living colour (and toilets) #SundayStills
- Time to get out of this wet winter funk – stop wallowing! #TreeSquare!
- Tree narrowly misses falling on sunroom in the garden #TreeSquare!
- Have I mentioned before that it’s winter here? #TreeSquare!
- Please join me for #lifethisweek
- Shades of evergreen for #SundayStills
- It doesn’t snow all that often here but when it does we capture the moment – #TreeSquare!
- Sunrise over Tumbarumba #WordlessWednesday
- From little things, big things grow #TreeSquare
- A different type of tea tree #SundayStills
- Hang in there! #TreeSquare
- The sad demise of Sugar Pine Walk #TreeSquare
- Facetime with a tree #TreeSquare
- What’s on my plate? Banana Chocolate Cake and the story behind it!
- Y is it so? – #TreeSquare
- Taking Stock 3/2021 for #lifethisweek
- How is my #BOLD challenge coming along? June 2021
- Time-travel fun with trees – #TreeSquare!
- Tree in falling snow – #TreeSquare!
- A rainbow through the trees – #TreeSquare!
- Delicious but maybe not so nutritious #WordlessWednesday
- Somewhere over the rainbow for #lifethisweek
- Let’s get out into the great outdoors for #SundayStills
- Friday Fiction – what have I been reading lately?
- What’s the point of a world without fun? #lifethisweek
- Sunset from the Sunroom for #SundayStills
- Taking photos for #WordlessWednesday
- You’ve got to nourish to flourish #lifethisweek
- Always look on the pink side of life #SundayStills
- June Story Chat: “The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far from the Tree” by Debbie Harris
- How to pretend it’s a starry, starry night for #SundayStills
- How I’m getting my #BOLD on – May 2021 edition
- Bonfire fun #WordlessWednesday
- Leaving on a jet plane (I wish) #lifethisweek
- 10 thoughts I shared about blogging as part of Library Information Week
- Meet my quirky friends #WordlessWednesday
- A cheeky little getaway across the border #SundayStills
- Friday Fiction – some fantastic reads as we celebrate Library Information Week
- Keep looking up, that’s the secret of life, according to Snoopy #WordlessWednesday
- A grey day for a bike ride #SundayStills
- Colour my world #WordlessWednesday
- Knowing how to weather motherhood #SundayStills
- A work in progress as I get my #BOLD on – April 2021 insights
- Taking Stock 2/2021 for #lifethisweek
- What did the fish say when he swam into the wall? #SundayStills
- A sunshiny, sparkly bright day spent remembering a bright and clever woman – #brightsquare!
- Always look on the bright side of life – and be square!
- Looking up at the bright hibiscus flowers #WordlessWednesday
- Bright yellow – and square!
- Is there a difference between feeling joyful and plain old happiness? #lifethisweek
- Friday Fiction – it’s been a while between updates!
- Autumn in Tumbarumba – a photo essay for #WordlessWednesday
- 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
- Where I walk #WordlessWednesday
- Things are looking up #TreeSquare!
- The boogey man in the form of a tree#TreeSquare!
- Geometry in living colour (and toilets) #SundayStills
- Time to get out of this wet winter funk – stop wallowing! #TreeSquare!
- Tree narrowly misses falling on sunroom in the garden #TreeSquare!
- Have I mentioned before that it’s winter here? #TreeSquare!
- Please join me for #lifethisweek
- Shades of evergreen for #SundayStills
- It doesn’t snow all that often here but when it does we capture the moment – #TreeSquare!
- Sunrise over Tumbarumba #WordlessWednesday
- From little things, big things grow #TreeSquare
- A different type of tea tree #SundayStills
- Hang in there! #TreeSquare
- The sad demise of Sugar Pine Walk #TreeSquare
- Facetime with a tree #TreeSquare
- What’s on my plate? Banana Chocolate Cake and the story behind it!
- Y is it so? – #TreeSquare
- Taking Stock 3/2021 for #lifethisweek
- How is my #BOLD challenge coming along? June 2021
- Time-travel fun with trees – #TreeSquare!
- Tree in falling snow – #TreeSquare!
- A rainbow through the trees – #TreeSquare!
- Delicious but maybe not so nutritious #WordlessWednesday
- Somewhere over the rainbow for #lifethisweek
- Let’s get out into the great outdoors for #SundayStills
- Friday Fiction – what have I been reading lately?
- What’s the point of a world without fun? #lifethisweek
- Sunset from the Sunroom for #SundayStills
- Taking photos for #WordlessWednesday
- You’ve got to nourish to flourish #lifethisweek
- Always look on the pink side of life #SundayStills
- June Story Chat: “The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far from the Tree” by Debbie Harris
- How to pretend it’s a starry, starry night for #SundayStills
- How I’m getting my #BOLD on – May 2021 edition
- Bonfire fun #WordlessWednesday
- Leaving on a jet plane (I wish) #lifethisweek
- 10 thoughts I shared about blogging as part of Library Information Week
- Meet my quirky friends #WordlessWednesday
- A cheeky little getaway across the border #SundayStills
- Friday Fiction – some fantastic reads as we celebrate Library Information Week
- Keep looking up, that’s the secret of life, according to Snoopy #WordlessWednesday
- A grey day for a bike ride #SundayStills
- Colour my world #WordlessWednesday
- Knowing how to weather motherhood #SundayStills
- A work in progress as I get my #BOLD on – April 2021 insights
- Taking Stock 2/2021 for #lifethisweek
- What did the fish say when he swam into the wall? #SundayStills
- A sunshiny, sparkly bright day spent remembering a bright and clever woman – #brightsquare!
- Always look on the bright side of life – and be square!
- Looking up at the bright hibiscus flowers #WordlessWednesday
- Bright yellow – and square!
- Is there a difference between feeling joyful and plain old happiness? #lifethisweek
- Friday Fiction – it’s been a while between updates!
- Autumn in Tumbarumba – a photo essay for #WordlessWednesday
- 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
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