by nakitakona » 18 Dec 2016, 11:54 - cooperation-peggy_Marco-pixabay.jpg (12.57 KiB) Viewed 77 times
I have just retired from the government service after working with the Department of Education for 25 years. I have come home with the great "rubbish" from my latest school assignment. They content bulk of my personal documents, manuals, references, office orders, among others. It is impractical or improper for me to leave there in school for nobody could benefit or make use of them.
I took two to three days to make them place to their rightful place. I segregate those documents for proper disposal for reuse and for shredding or burning. I keep the manuals and references for donation to the public library or to be given to my co-school head who doesn't have that ready references. Of course, I keep my personal appointment, service records, certificates of awards and recognition.
Similar Task
I have a mini library at home. I want to get rid some of those books which have been published more than 10 years and teaching manuals and textbooks which I have used when I was teaching before as a classroom teacher. Periodicals and old newspapers and magazines. There are also pocket books, novels, and do-it manuals.
I pack those books and donate to our city library. Those old magazines, newspapers and periodicals are weighed and sold to the buy-and-sell business venture and use the money to repaint my mini library wall. By the way, the pocket books and novels are given to my close relatives especially those who love reading them and who are still studying in college. They are so grateful receiving them.
Computer Files
Our school has its own desktop computer and the city government has issued me a laptop which I have returned upon retiring from the service as a school head. I have a personal file created at the school desktop. Thus I need to copy or delete them from said computer. Since those files contain momentous images of which I am involved like the graduation exercises which I am the speaker, PTA conferences, Local Government Unit meetings, teachers consultative meeting, scouting and other school related activities in which I am personally conducting and involved.
In the laptop, those similar pictures are also stored. I need to remove them too before I turn over the laptop to the city government property custodian. If I would to estimate those files, they are around 16 gigabytes. They are great files. I buy several pieces of DVD to recopy those files. The DVD come short of space to accommodate those bulky files. I am compelled to use Google Drive. Aside from my personal email ad, I create two or more ads and they are all recopied.
Getting Out of the Mess
With those situations I have presented above, I have come up with 4 simple practical things to do to make myself free from those "rubbish" I have had after those 25 faithful years of working with the government. They are to shred or burn them, to donate them, to resell them, and to keep those which could be retrieved anytime when I need them.
In so doing, I am happy to tell my wife: "Honey, I am home!"
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