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.