My Final Days of Work
6 min readMay 29, 2020
5–4–3–2–1 — Blast Off!
Just as the SpaceX Dragon was preparing to blast off earlier this week, I, too, am preparing to blast off into retirement. My final day of teaching is Tuesday June 2, and as I look back over my career, I see five distinct phases.
Summer Work in a Factory. The first job where I actually had to work a full eight-hour day occurred during the summer of 1968, just before my senior…
