i just retired as a school teacher
Retirement
Retirement is the withdrawal from one's position or occupation or from one's active working life. A person may also semi-retire by reducing work hours.
An increasing number of individuals are choosing to put off this point of total retirement, by selecting to exist in the emerging state of pre-tirement.
Many people choose to retire when they are eligible for private or public pension benefits, although some are forced to retire when bodily conditions no longer allow the person to work any longer (by illness
laude on the translation of Lucretius' "De rerum natura", Books I and V. From 1937 she was a teacher in Groningen, then in Kampen. In 1951, at the request of the non-conformist pedagogue Kees Boeke, she joined him at the school section of the "Werkplaats Kindergemeenschap" in Bilthoven. She retired in 1963 and settled in Eefde.
Literary career.
Just before the outbreak of World War II in May 1940, Ida Gerhardt made her debut with her first collection of poems, "