Seven good reasons for taking retirement

No more

• boring meetings, having to sit with a bunch of PhDs with clashing egos and personality disorders;
• meetings during my nap time;
• teaching at 8.30 in the morning and at 6.30 in the evening;
• teaching huge classes, knowing well that I could never learn the names of all the students;
• reading papers written by students, who, even after 15 years of learning English, still can’t tell the present tense from the past;
• watching my back for those academic "knives", and
• having to hold teddy bears and flowers when posing with students for graduation photos!