With the start of October the new academic year has started, and it brings with it the start of my 26th year at the University of Surrey. I started here 25 years ago. In some ways it doesn't feel like very long, but if I look back to those days when I started, they seem sufficiently shrouded in the veils of memory to count as a long time ago.
I suppose these days it is getting increasingly unusual to be at one employer for so long, and 25 years at one place is quite unusual. Certainly the place has changes quite a bit over those years - not surprising for a University which is only now about 60 years old. If things carry on as they are, I should still be expecting to work there around my 40 year anniversary (!), but expecting soon to retire at that point.
I haven't received anything congratualing me on my long service or offering me a carriage clock. Usually it gets flagged somewhere eventually and I get a belated letter. I might have to casually drop some hints in the right place this time.
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