Education, Work and Catholic Life by Anne Keary

Author:Anne Keary
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789811389894
Publisher: Springer Singapore

Life After Work and Raising Family: ‘My Job Doesn’t Define Who I Am’

For interviewees, post-family life was experienced in different ways across generations. When interviewed in 1994 Nadia (Generation 1) was retired ‘and filling my life with all sorts of things that I haven’t been able to do before’ such as environmental work in the Mud Islands and building her retirement home. When first interviewed in 1994, Nadia’s daughter Pam was 40 years old, and like her mother, pursued a career in teaching. Pam was teaching in an Aboriginal teacher adult education program while living in the most north-west community in South Australia. She had retired from teaching when interviewed in 2016, before which she had been principal in South Australian schools:

living up [in north-west south Australia] was sort of more than work – it was quite an experience of a lifetime, and … had a huge impact on me. I feel very privileged to have spent some really good amount of time up there and met some really lifelong friends, family. Been privileged to have been to places, seen places, and participated in ceremonies that not many other people would have had access to or experienced (Interview 2016).

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