User:Wahiba~enwikiversity

Wahiba

A name I use quite a bit as an identifier on the world wide web. When trying to think of suitable names I used this one from my two years in the Sultanate of Oman. Wahiba is the name of the desert area next to the Arabian Sea.

For the record my name is David Usher. I am 59 years old and until my 50th birthday was a lecturer in Mechanical and Production Engineering at a Further Education College in the UK. The levels I taught were pre-university level. Mainly students between the ages of 16 and 19, although there were many who came with ages extending beond this range.

UK residents with a knowledge of the politics of education will notice that I was paid off in 1997, actually the day before the present government came into power. I was in the last batch to get their pension at 50.

Since then I have worked as a School Technician, taught at a a school in Oman and obtained an MSc in Engineering Design Management. Subsequently my significant other has obtained regular employment so that I have adopted the role of house husband, ironing excepted.

A visit to my web site SILTEC shows that I have enough interests to keep myself busy. I am also a volunteer with a Heritage Railway EBASR, and with a Credit Union, Leeds City.