Last day of work for 12 months - yay.

[DrDuck]

Started 12 Months long service leave today.

I'll be pretty busy doing stuff to my 140 year old house, and doing more prospecting.

Going out with a couple of mates next week, to test a theory we have about a particular spot.

 

[Eldorado]

Enjoy your time off Doc.I might take a bit of my long service this year I think.By the way,the lamb roll was awesome last night. :Y:

 

[Jaros]

Have a well deserved break Dr Duck. Good hunting. :goldnugget:

 

[Mackka]

Congratulations Doc.
I wish you and yours every success for the next 12 months and longer.
Mackka
12 months LSL, Public Service? layful:

 

[DrDuck]

Yep Mackka

I'm a criminologist, and have worked for the cops since 1992 and Attorney General's before that.

I have more long service leave up my sleeve, but took a few days less than one year so my off sider could act in my position without having to advertise.

 

[Mackka]

My sincere thanks for all that you have done over those many years and I am sure many harrowing times.
Now get off the net and go and find some gold, sapphires or at least a tin of paint for the reno.
Mackka :lol: :lol: :lol: :Y: :Y: :Y:

 

[Ded Driver]

lucky bugga. good luck & best wishes Dr Duck. enjoy yourself & don't get outa bed too early for 3 months layful:

 

[LONEWOLF]

Tough Job DrDuck... Have a much deserved break... :Y:

LW....

 

[DrDuck]

Thanks guys, but my job has generally been more strategic and statistical than with particular cases.

I did however, do some intelligence analysis in a fairly touchy area at one time, and had a fair bit to do with the Police Royal Commission when that was happening.

For the past while I have been working first in relation to recruit education, and then since 2011 in executive education for commanders.

While I've pubilished on criminal profiling (arguing that is mainly BS), I am not a profiler!

For those who are interested, here is a list of some of my publications. Not all of them are there, but you will see its pretty dry stuff.

https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=R34bPqYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Having worked in the public sector, the emphasis is not so much publishing in the scholarly press, as it would have been if I stayed in the university.

Also, some of the more interesting things I've been involved in don't get aired widely.

Sorry to blow my own trumpet a but, but I am feeling a bit sentimental about taking a break, because I did like my job very much. I did need a break, though.

 

[LONEWOLF]

Wow you were a busy Duck...

LW....

 

[goody2shoes]

Enjoy your 12 months off Mr Duck

Goody

 

[AngerManagement]

Enjoy Mr Duck

After leaving Health and lots of research and papers - it is some time hard to look back and see that some good work has been forgotten and or ignored. Yet when one sees the odd reference to outcomes (even if some people are not acknowledged) or new processes, one can still feel a little warm glow to know that some things have been picked up.

And as you only Die once but you have the chance to live every day..... get yourself busy and enjoy every minute of it and do not look back at the work place.

I miss the $$$ but there is no way I could ever go back to what I was.

 

[Lesgold]

Good on you DD. The difficult part of taking time off is to actually go back. Give me a yell if you want to spend some time at the bottom of the hill. Always looking for an excuse to get out in the bush swinging or panning. Enjoy the longy.

Cheers

Les

 

[limpalot]

Good on you DD, take time and smell the gold nuggets.
Cheers LL

 

[RM Outback]

Enjoy it Dr Duck extended breaks are a breath of fresh air for the soul.

 

[DrDuck]

No truer words spoken AM. One of the more interesting things was going through all the reports and reviews I had done that came to nothing in the long run.

Enjoy Mr Duck

After leaving Health and lots of research and papers - it is some time hard to look back and see that some good work has been forgotten and or ignored. Yet when one sees the odd reference to outcomes (even if some people are not acknowledged) or new processes, one can still feel a little warm glow to know that some things have been picked up.

And as you only Die once but you have the chance to live every day..... get yourself busy and enjoy every minute of it and do not look back at the work place.

I miss the $$$ but there is no way I could ever go back to what I was.

 

[DrDuck]

Thanks Les,

That's a very generous offer, and I'd like to take you up on that after I have earned a few brownie points at the end of a paint brush.

Good on you DD. The difficult part of taking time off is to actually go back. Give me a yell if you want to spend some time at the bottom of the hill. Always looking for an excuse to get out in the bush swinging or panning. Enjoy the longy.

Cheers

Les

 

[MegsyB007]

You lucky Dr Duck!
Hope you have a fantastic break.
Lots of time to create more culinary delights for us to drool over now too!

Cheers,
Megsy

 

[diggit]

Good on you DD. personally I find it funny when I read back on papers I wrote back in the day when I was in possession of an active brain and wonder "Did I really write that?" Lol.

Enjoy the break. See can you solve the missing king nugget case of 2019. layful:

 

[Wishfull]

Good luck DD we want to see some :goldnugget: find pictures one day on here.