One day I came home from my job on Clacton Pier (I had just got my BA in Sociology, so the work was suitable) and my wife told me that one the lecturers at her college had not turned up. The was a nasty recession on at the time (plus ca change) so I said "gis a job". So began a career in teaching ...

After an interlude in the Essex Ambulance service I returned to teaching - by day in a school for children with autism, and by night as an OU tutor. The OU did not pay well, so I took it as a point of honour to make as much use as I could of their staff fee-waivers. One of the degrees I got was in Psychology so when I switched to mainstream teaching I was offered Head of Psychology.

The rest is history.