Careering On: Lessons from a Life in Further Education

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Ambition. Daring. And blind luck.

In this candid, witty, often nail-biting memoir, Ian Wallis shares the highs, lows, and sleepless nights of climbing the career ladder to become a leader in further education. With equal parts chutzpah, triumph, and near catastrophe, this memoir is a testament to resilience, pushing boundaries, and learning (usually only through hindsight) when to exercise caution.

From secretly building an office over a weekend to building a university, these stories capture the thrill of ambition, the weight of responsibility, and the fine line between daring and disaster. Readers are invited to laugh, cringe, and think how they would handle similar situations.

Competitive gamesmanship had made me go too far. I saw that now. The wall was lovely. The mahogany door a triumph of door fitting. The brass finishing touches wonderful. The rural scene in the picture very life enhancing. You really couldn’t tell that it was all a few hours old. And my career had only a few hours left.

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