As a recent retiree I can’t help but notice that these are “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” scenarios for senior scholars/teachers. If you don’t retire, the conventions of academic life you grew up with will trip you. If you retire but still teach now and again, the conventions of academic life you grew up with…will also trip you. So I call “a plague upon both your houses.”
As a recent retiree I can’t help but notice that these are “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” scenarios for senior scholars/teachers. If you don’t retire, the conventions of academic life you grew up with will trip you. If you retire but still teach now and again, the conventions of academic life you grew up with…will also trip you. So I call “a plague upon both your houses.”