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From postal work to retirement

physics. Are you working? Are you not working? >> I'm retired now. You are retired, okay. >> Yeah, I used to work for the post office. Oh, really? You are a postman? >> No, I wo...

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biology and

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physics. Are you working? Are you not

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working?

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>> I'm retired now. You are retired, okay.

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>> Yeah, I used to work for the post

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office. Oh, really? You are a postman?

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>> No, I worked at Gatwick close to do the

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figures for them at the Gatwick mail

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center. We are both retired, recently

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retired.

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>> Oh, congratulations.

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>> you. Are you happy about retiring?

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>> Very happy now.

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>> [laughter]

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>> We we started working a long time, but

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we think it's the time now. Yeah, nice.

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And what did you both used to do for

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Well,

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it's a variety. Most recently we had a

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property business where we rented uh

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properties to students for Brighton

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University in Sussex. All right, great.

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Yeah. And what did you both used to do

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for work then? Oh, I used to work in a

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in a club. In a club, really?

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>> Yeah. Like night club or It is police

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club actually. A police club?

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>> Yeah.

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>> [laughter]

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>> Okay. Are you recently retired or

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retired for some time?

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>> Uh

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4 years ago. 4 years ago, okay.

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>> Yeah. Uh can you give any advice to

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people who are

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younger than you, let's say?

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Um Do you have any advice? Additional

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advice for a teacher would be don't go

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into teaching.

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>> [laughter]

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>> Uh well,

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let's try not pick a cliche.

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>> [laughter]

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>> Um Have you ever given anything like

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that to anyone? Uh not really. I always

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say live today, worry about tomorrow

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tomorrow.

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