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- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Today is the final day of school. Final exams were largely successful. Year 22 in the classroom in the books. I still love teaching. God is good.
My hat is off to you Josh. Being a good teacher is hard. After I student taught at a Middle School in 1979 I ran off to law school as fast as my legs could carry me!
It’s good that you recognized that early on. I tell students who are contemplating the profession they have to figure out whether they love it; if they don’t, burn out comes quickly and furiously.
Of course, the (diocesan) powers that be throw all sorts of weird roadblocks and checkpoints in the way which, had I experienced them 20+ years ago, I would have quit after year 2 or 3.
This week was consumed by a QA audit of the digital instrumentation and controls program that I had developed for “Neutrons ‘R Us.” One of the “findings” is that the author of the program documents was not enrolled in the training curriculum on the program that he had created and taught.
I’ve been doing this for 50 years, Folks. I have taught reactor kinetics on a nuclear submarine before these people were born. I was doing slide rule calculations of estimated critical rod position and core fuel burnup before there were calculators, never mind software driven digital I&C. I programmed the first digital data logger at a commercial pressurized water reactor before these people could spell digital. Nuclear QA is sometimes blind. I was infuriated, but thankfully after making a stink fit, I got the problem straightened out.
Sorry. It’s an open forum. Just venting. I work with good people, even the QA auditors, but as I said, some nuclear QA rules are sometimes just plain ridiculous. My personal opinion as a free citizen.
I feel for you LQC. I recently retired from the world of Pharmacy. When I started in 81 experience was the gold standard. Now a residency and lots of letters after your name is the big deal. Access to the WWW is all that matters.