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Jennifer and David Carson
Jennifer
After graduation, I first worked for EMI Electronics as a programmer. This was followed by a lectureship at Isleworth Polytechnic, London, then a short spell as a programmer at ICT; thereafter as a lecturer at the local FE college, in charge of Maths. provision throughout the college, teaching up to post A-level. I stopped teaching full time in 2000 and then did part-time teaching for 3 years. I now do private tutoring which keeps my brain working and is much appreciated by my students.
I am able to tutor remotely through Skype. One of my A level students went to Bulgaria in 2012 to do a Veterinary Science course. She needed help with a Statistics unit, so I tutored her via Skype – different for me and successful for her.
My addiction to SuDoku puzzles continues.
Our six grand-children keep us busy and entertained. Kitty, now 17, is doing A levels and learning to drive. Alice, 10, is at Primary School and very keen on Mathematics. Louise, 7 likes to read poetry and to compose her own verses. Bethany, 4, starts school this September. She is very good at organising other people (usually her grandparents). Anna, 3, whose powers of logic and manipulation mean that she can outwit everyone else, without their realising she's doing it.
And Oliver, our newest arrival, born at the end of March this year.
David
My own career after graduation was in computer software, first in the defence industry, then with CAP, followed by Scottish and Newcastle Breweries (Product Test a speciality!). This was followed by a long, varied and interesting career with IBM. I left IBM in 1993, taking part in one of their “brown envelope jobs”, as they were known. I then worked as an IT Contractor for a few years, giving up two years ago. Gives you a totally different view of the business world, working as a contractor!!!
Now I continue with my clay therapy project – gardening as the rest of the world knows it. I have extended my efforts to assist a few of my elderly neighbours; collecting leaves in the autumn; weeding in the summer; taking refuse to the tip and just recently a little bit of chain-sawing; one of my neighbours decided to fell a tree and it fell into the wrong garden.
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