After 54 years working and 15 years in my current position today is my last working day, from tomorrow I will officially be retired.

Of those 54 years:

  • 14 were spent in the NHS (pathology)
  • 8.5 were spent in the furniture industry
  • 15 were spent in telecoms
  • 0.5 were spent in banking, government (contract)
  • 1 spent in global pharmaceutical (redudancy put paid to that rather good gig)
  • 15 were spent in global distribution (great gig)

The 40 years spent in IT were largely spent in database administration (Oracle, Postgresql, Mysql / Mariadb, DB2 and SQL Server).
Apart from SQL Server the rest were exclusively on Linux.

Throughout most of that time I have been lucky enough to both do the work I enjoy and be allowed to learn new technologies, particulary during the last 15 years working in a global distribution company.

I should now have much more time to pursue my interests:

  • Open source software in general.
  • Database administration.
  • Systems administration.
  • Learning new things, not necessarily IT related.
  • Volunteerng - IT preferably.