Quoting our lecturer:

[spudtater]

"I'm not going to hand back your assignments yet, because then you'll spend all lecture reading through them rather than paying attention. I know this very well, as I've been doing this job for twenty-five... thirty... thirty-fi... oh my God!"

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[figg.livejournal.com]

Heheh.

I dunno when I will be in london, but looks to be a night out in oxford on the friday.

[spudtater.livejournal.com]

Ah, k. I'll be off Croydon-wards after the Friday, with not much chance of getting in to London proper.

[shano-d.livejournal.com]

Here we see a textbook example of how to make your students remember a lecture and, hopefully, some of the course content in it.

Actually, he's probably not concerned so much about how long he's been a lecturer as the fact that he's going to have to retire soon.

[spudtater.livejournal.com]

He says that he "should have retired five years ago".

Is there an absolute age by which you must retire?

[shano-d.livejournal.com]

I thought 65 was considered a mandatory retirement age, and Biology was certainly trying to push my father out before that (because young researchers bring in more money than old lecturers). There are no doubt ways around that, if the lecturer and university really want it.