The creamy blossom and verdant lawns of a manicured cottage in the Gloucestershire countryside will serve as a potent salve after two years’ pillorying by the identitarian Gestapo.
Leigh - just reading your Substack now. Love your writing and your bluntness. So refreshing in a day and age of throat-clearing preambles and pussyfooting carefully around subjects.
I'm 55 as well and just about ready to pack in my medical career due to the inundation of bureaucracy and wokeness, and the frustration of seeing people suffer and die needlessly while we pay people to do nothing. So I feel your pain.
Your story of the lab assistant getting in trouble for working hard reminds me of the ER doc I worked with who got in trouble for mopping a floor. There were 40 people in the waiting room and the (unionized) cleaners were at lunch. He mopped up a bloody floor and made a bed to allow a patient on an ambulance stretcher to be brought in and examined. A few weeks later he had a letter from HR warning him not to cross union boundaries again.
I took early retirement at 55 also, and I have never regretted it (I'm 60 ow). We're still, however, stuck in Canada, but perhaps not forever.
How much room have you got on your property at Broad Campden? Be prepared for an influx of academic Canadian refugees.
We will happily pitch an encampment in the garden.
So sorry the University has treated you so shabbily. Hope you are happier at home.
Leigh - just reading your Substack now. Love your writing and your bluntness. So refreshing in a day and age of throat-clearing preambles and pussyfooting carefully around subjects.
I'm 55 as well and just about ready to pack in my medical career due to the inundation of bureaucracy and wokeness, and the frustration of seeing people suffer and die needlessly while we pay people to do nothing. So I feel your pain.
Your story of the lab assistant getting in trouble for working hard reminds me of the ER doc I worked with who got in trouble for mopping a floor. There were 40 people in the waiting room and the (unionized) cleaners were at lunch. He mopped up a bloody floor and made a bed to allow a patient on an ambulance stretcher to be brought in and examined. A few weeks later he had a letter from HR warning him not to cross union boundaries again.