resume of ron price: a lot happens in a lifetime of 60 years: 1944-2004
a. my ascribed roles: grandson, son, nephew, cousin, father, step-father, uncle, step-grandfather, step-father, husband, male.
b. my achieved roles: writer, poet, essayist, author, journalist, teacher, lecturer, student and many others found in section 4 below at different times since beginning my employment life in 1961.
1.1 academic qualifications
* bachelor of arts(sociology)
mcmaster university
hamilton ontario canada 1966
* ma(qualifying thesis)
university of queensland
st lucia queensland
australia 1988
1.2 professional qualifications
* post graduate diploma in education
windsor university
windsor ontario canada 1967
* certificate of integrated studies
education department of ontario
toronto ontario canada 1970
1.3 further studies(qualifications incomplete)
* advanced dipoma in education
university of adelaide
adelaide south australia 1973
-comparative education unit
* master of educational administration
university of new england
armadale nsw 1975 to 1978
-comparative education, organization theory and practice, educational
administration, open education and history of education units
* diploma in personnel management and industrial relations
tasmanian college of advanced education
launceston tasmania 1980
-organizational behaviour-3 units
* graduate diploma in multicultural education
armadale college of advanced education
armadale nsw 1983
-language and society unit; presented paper at residential school.
* graduate diploma in religious education
south australian college of advanced education
adelaide south australia 1984 to 1986
-religious symbols and symbolism, sociology of education, the bible
as literature, moral education, islam and principles of religious education units.
1.4 transcripts and grades
* transcripts are available on request, originals or copies.
* a summary of my academic record would read:
matriculation(b), ba©, dip.ed.(b), post-graduate studies(2 distinctions, 5 credits, 1 pass(b) and 10 pass© grades.
1.5 teaching qualifications and registrations
* teaching certificate(primary) windsor teachers’ college 1967.
* registered with the primary, secondary and technical teachers
registration boards of victoria in 1978, 1978 and 1975, resp.
* granted permanency with devet (now dept of training and employment) in western australia in june 1992.
1.6 professional memberships and eligibility
* secondary school teachers union of western australia: 1987 to 1999.
branch secretary for four of those years at hedland college and the thornlie campus of the southeast metropolitan college of tafe
* australian association of educational administration: 1975 to 1976
* australian institute of welfare workers(eligible)
2. publications:
2.1 articles and reviews: journals/websites
1.*essays, interviews and articles on the internet at:
1.1 the baha'i academic resource library jonah@winterswebsorks.com.(100 items ca 'posted'); and at
1.2 some 200 ca other sites
2. * "a history of the baha'i faith in the northern territory: 1947-1997," northern lights, 32 installments, 2000-2003.
3. * periodic articles in "newsletters," regional teaching committees of the nsa of the baha'is of australia inc., 1971-2001.
4. * periodic articles/letters, baha'i canada and the australian baha'i bulletin, 1971-2001.
5. * "memorials of the faithful," baha'i studies review, september 2001.
6. * "review of two chapbooks: the poetry of tony lee," arts dialogue, june 2001.
7. * "asia and the lost poems: the poetry of anthony lee," art 'n soul, a website for poets and poetry, january 2000.
8. * "the passionate artist," australian baha'i studies, vol.2, 2000.
9. * "memorials of the faithful," australian baha'i studies, vol.1, no.2, 1999, p.102.
10. * "poetry of ron price: an overview," abs newsletter, no.38, september 1997.
11. * "thomas a kempis, taherzadeh and the day of judgement," forum, vol.3, no 1, 1994, pp.1-3.
12. * "forward", an introduction to occasions of grace: poems and portrayals, roger white, george ronald, oxford, 1993.
13. * "the inner life and the environment", a paper presented at murdoch university at the baha’i studies conference in april 1990 and published in the environment: our common heritage, mongraph no.5, 1994, pp.118-131.
14. * "the history of a dream: a tribute to persistence", office of tafe publication, 1988, pp.5-6.
15. * "response", dialogue, vol.2, no.1, 1986, pp.3-4.
16. * "homeward bound", dialogue, vol.1, no. 1, 1985, pp.37-38.
17. * "happiness", herald of the south, vol.11, 1985, pp.26-27.
18. * "perspectives on multiculturalism", residential school papers: may to july 1983, centre for multicultural studies, armidale cae, pp.24-28.
19. * "who plays the music in your dreams?", dream international, 1983, vol.1, no.3, p.31.
20. * "consultative decision making", northern news, darwin, december, 1983.
21. "the baha'i faith: a series of 4 articles," ballarat college of advanced education, student magazine: 1977-1978.
2.2. articles and reviews: newspapers
150 articles of about 800 words each have appeared in the following newspapers and magazines:
katherine advertiser.....150,000 words
katherine times............2000 words
barkley regional...........300 words
launceston examiner....300 words
the tasmanian............. 300 words
the northern news .......300 words
cosmos...........................500 words
zirius..............................500 words
ballarat cae..................2500 words(5 articles)
newspapers on the internet...2000 words
2.3 poetry
poetry published in the following publications:
1. artgender
2. the southern gazette
3. herald of the south
4. katherine advertiser
5. four w no.6: selected works-charles sturt university
6. the southern gazette
7. australian baha’i bulletin
8. the liquid mirror
9. baha'i canada
10. abs newsletter
11. australian baha'i studies journal
12. world order: anthology
13. many(40 ca) magazines on the internet
(see my website: 'endgame' after hyperlink 42)
2.4 manuals
* 25 in-house training manuals in the management studies program for hedland college and the open college of tafe in katherine in the northern territory.(70 page average length of each manual)
* 60 study guides for the perth campus, cmc and the thornlie campus, semc in a wide range of general studies/human service subjects.(40 page average length)
….see appendix b below for list of subjects…..
2.5 books, essays and letters
2.5.1 books complete: published:
1. the emergence of a baha'i consciousness in world literature: the poetry of roger white. this is a collection of essays written from 1988 to 2002: 80,000 words.
* published by juxta publications and baha'i academics resource library,
internet sites.
2. pioneering over four epochs: an autobiographical study
and a study in autobiography, 4th edition, bwcl, 800 pages.
2.5.2 essays and letters complete: unpublished:
pioneering over four epochs: 2nd edition, 2002(1993) an autobiographical collection of essays, journals, poetry, letters, book reviews, photographs, tapes, notes and narrative written over thirty-seven years: from 1967 to 2004--five million words(approx).
2.5.3. essays complete: unpublished:
essays 1979-2002: a collection of 120 essays of 150,000 words(ca) by an international pioneer in australia in the third, fourth and fifth epochs.
* essays 2003-2004: a collection of 20 essays of 20,000 words(ca) by an international pioneer in australia in the fifth epoch.
2.5.4 letters complete: unpublished:
1967-2004. a collection of twenty-five volumes of letters to and from a pioneer in the baha’i community--some 3000 ca letters.
letters.
2.6 booklets
2.6.1 complete: unpublished:
53 booklets of poetry: 100-120 poems per booklet:
written 2004-1980....
2.7 websites
1600 pages(250,000 words) of essays, narrative, interviews, book reviews and poetry are located at some 300 websites and subsidiary websites on the internet. see my website at the link 'endgame', after site #42, for a list of many of these sites.
2.8 collections of my poetry in libraries:
1. baha'i world centre library, baha'i world centre, po box 31 001, haifa israel: 5000 poems.
2. canadian national baha'i centre library, 7200 leslie street,thornhill, ontario, l#t 6l8 canada, 300 poems.
3. australian national baha'i centre library, sydney, australia, 300 poems.
4. regional baha'i council of tasmania, po box 1126, gpo hobart, tasmania, 7001, baha'i state library of tasmania, hobart, 150 poems.
5. baha'i centre of learning library, c/-lsa of the baha'is of melville, po box 628, applecross,western australia, 6153, 200 poems.
6. local spiritual assembly library of the baha'is of burlington, ontario, canada, 150 poems.
7. international pioneer committee of the national spiritual assembly of the baha'is of canada, 7200 leslie street, thornhill, ontario, l3t 6l8, canada, 120 poems.
8. local spiritual assembly of the baha'is of brighton, po box 553, brighton, south australia, 5048, state baha'i centre library, brighton, s.a., 120 poems.
9. local spiritual assembly of the baha'is of canberra, 18 hichey court, act, 2611, baha'i centre library, 120 poems.
10. baha'i council of the northern territory, po box 2055, humpty doo, nt, 0836.
11. baha'i council of victoria, knoxfield, victoria, 3182(in preparation).
12. lsas of belmont, launceston, ballarat, darwin: hold 'some of my poetry' in their archives.
13. the afnan library, c/-george ronald publishers, 24 gardiner close,
abingdon, oxon, ox14 3ya, england has a cd of some 200,000 words.
2.9 books in libraries:
1. the emergence of a baha'i consciousness in world literature: the poetry of roger white, in the afnan library, a 'deposit library' administered by the national spiritual assembly of the baha'is of the united kingdom, april 2003.
2. the same book is in the 'baha'i academics resource library'. see http://bahai-library.org/books/white; and at juxta publications. see http://juxta.com/
3. i have been given approval to publish this book by the national literature committee of the national spiritual assembly of the baha'is of canada and juxta publications has put it on their site at: http://juxta.com/
4. pioneering over four epochs: an autobiographical study and a study in autobiography, bwcl, 2004.
2.10 essays in libraries:
1.the baha'i world centre library, 50 essays(approx)
2. various internet locations of a ‘library’ nature.
2.11 radio programs and interviews:
2.11.1 interviews: interviewed on eight occasions in eight cities and towns in australia from 1974 to 1995 on the subjects of (i) education or (ii) the baha'i faith. each interview 15 to 25 minutes.
2.11.2 programs: presented 150 half hour programs on city park radio in launceston for the launceston baha'i community: 2000-2003.
3. courses and levels taught
3.1 pre-apprentice, apprentice, epuy, pep and youth training programs(15 to 25 year old students):
* wide range of programs in these areas beginning in 1982:
-open college of tafe in katherine 1982-1986
-hedland college 1986-1987
-perth campus/balga campus 1988
-thornlie campus 1989-1999
3.2 other post-secondary institutions:full/part/time(f/p/t)
*george town school for seniors inc 1999-2003(p/t)
*charles sturt university 1995(july to october)(f/t)
* tasmanian cae 1974 and 1979(f/t)
* ballarat cae 1976-1978(f/t)
* deakin university 1977(external studies lecturer)(p/t)
* whitehorse technical college 1975(f/t)
* university of tasmania 1974(external studies lecturer)(p/t)
3.3 courses taught
during two(1980/1) of the thirty years(1974-2004) two of these years, i did not teach. i taught in the post-secondary institutions listed above; i taught some ninety differently named units of study in the humanities and social sciences. the list is too long to sight here; i have included it in appendix b below. the list includes the following general categories:
* communication studies
* social sciences
* welfare studies/human services
* education studies
* matriculation studies
* public relations/media studies
* creative and business writing
(see appendix b below for list of subjects taught)
3.4 primary and secondary school teaching experience:
a. primary:
1. sir martin frobisher school, frobisher bay, nwt, canada,1967/8.
2. cherry valley primary school, cherry valley, ontario, 1969/70.
3. picton primary school, picton, ontario, canada, 1970/1.
4. whyalla primary school, whyalla, south australia, 1971/2.
b. secondary:
1. eyre high school, whyalla, south australia, 1972/3.
2. para hills secondary school, para hills, south australia, 1973/4
4. industrial, commercial and human service employment experience: 1961-2001
(non-teaching experience)
a. summer and/or short term jobs: (each 5 months maximum)
* kitchen-assistant, a&w root beer co., aldershot, ontario, 1960.
* packer, shell oil company, hamilton, ontario, canada, 1961.
* driver-assistant, dundas slot-machine company, dundas, ontario, canada, 1962.
* data processing/storeman & packer, firestone tire and rubber corporation, hamilton, ontario, canada, 1963
* cash-register clearance, t. eaton company of canada, 1964
* repairman/assistant, bell telephone co of canada ltd., hamilton, ontario, 1964
* abstractor, canadian peace research institute, dundas, ontario, canada, 1965
* electrician's assistant, stelco of canada, hamilton, ontario, canada, 1965
* driver/salesman, good humour company, hamilton, ontario, canada, 1966
* clerk, motor vehicle license branch, dept of transport, brantford, ontario, 1967
* systems analyst, bad boy company, toronto, ontario, canada, 1968
* security work, international security, toronto, ontario, canada, 1968
* youth worker, resource centre association inc., launceston, tasmania, 1979
* journalist, abc radio, launceston, tasmania, 1979
* editor, external studies unit, tasmanian c.a.e., launceston, tasmania, 1979
b. full time jobs:(each 2 to 4 years)
* maintenance scheduler, renison goldfields p/l, zeehan, tasmania, 1981-1982
* adult educator, tafe, katherine, northern territory, 1982-1986
* public relations officer, hedland college, south hedland, wa, 1986-1987
c. casual-recent-volunteer work:(1997-2004)
* research assistant, recreation network inc(disability services) subiaco, wa, 1997
* presenter of programs, city park radio, launceston, 2000-2003.
* tutor/president, george town school for seniors, inc., george town, tasmania, 1999-2004.
5. 1 personal interests
* writing: see section 2 above for details: 1962-2004
* reading and music : 1962-2004(statement available if desired)
* the social sciences and humanities: have more than 100 files of notes, some 20 million words, collected over 40 years(1962-2004).
5.2 clubs and associations
* member of choir in george town, 2001-2004.
* public speaking assessor
rostrum, katherine, nt : 1984/6
* member of the lions club,
zeehan tasmania : 1981/2
* member of fitness centres in melbourne(1975-6), ballarat(1977-78),
perth(1989-99) and launceston(1999-2003)
* member of baseball and hockey teams in burlington: 1953/4-1962
* member of the baha’i faith : 1959-2004
(see baha’i resume below for details)
6. references, referees and portfolio of my work:
if required, i will supply transcripts, references and testimonials in relation to many of the above positions as well as references for my recent time in tasmania, 1999-2004, where my work has been as a volunteer. samples of my writing are also availabel if requested. in may 2001 i went onto an australian disability pension and i no longer applied for jobs.
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resume of ron price: a lot happens in a lifetime of 60 years: 1944-2004
a. my ascribed roles: grandson, son, nephew, cousin, father, step-father, uncle, step-grandfather, step-father, husband, male.
b. my achieved roles: writer, poet, essayist, author, journalist, teacher, lecturer, student and many others found in section 4 below at different times since beginning my employment life in 1961.
1.1 academic qualifications
* bachelor of arts(sociology)
mcmaster university
hamilton ontario canada 1966
* ma(qualifying thesis)
university of queensland
st lucia queensland
australia 1988
1.2 professional qualifications
* post graduate diploma in education
windsor university
windsor ontario canada 1967
* certificate of integrated studies
education department of ontario
toronto ontario canada 1970
1.3 further studies(qualifications incomplete)
* advanced dipoma in education
university of adelaide
adelaide south australia 1973
-comparative education unit
* master of educational administration
university of new england
armadale nsw 1975 to 1978
-comparative education, organization theory and practice, educational
administration, open education and history of education units
* diploma in personnel management and industrial relations
tasmanian college of advanced education
launceston tasmania 1980
-organizational behaviour-3 units
* graduate diploma in multicultural education
armadale college of advanced education
armadale nsw 1983
-language and society unit; presented paper at residential school.
* graduate diploma in religious education
south australian college of advanced education
adelaide south australia 1984 to 1986
-religious symbols and symbolism, sociology of education, the bible
as literature, moral education, islam and principles of religious education units.
1.4 transcripts and grades
* transcripts are available on request, originals or copies.
* a summary of my academic record would read:
matriculation(
, ba©, dip.ed.(, post-graduate studies(2 distinctions, 5 credits, 1 pass( and 10 pass© grades.
1.5 teaching qualifications and registrations
* teaching certificate(primary) windsor teachers’ college 1967.
* registered with the primary, secondary and technical teachers
registration boards of victoria in 1978, 1978 and 1975, resp.
* granted permanency with devet (now dept of training and employment) in western australia in june 1992.
1.6 professional memberships and eligibility
* secondary school teachers union of western australia: 1987 to 1999.
branch secretary for four of those years at hedland college and the thornlie campus of the southeast metropolitan college of tafe
* australian association of educational administration: 1975 to 1976
* australian institute of welfare workers(eligible)
2. publications:
2.1 articles and reviews: journals/websites
1.*essays, interviews and articles on the internet at:
1.1 the baha'i academic resource library jonah@winterswebsorks.com.(100 items ca 'posted'); and at
1.2 some 200 ca other sites
2. * "a history of the baha'i faith in the northern territory: 1947-1997," northern lights, 32 installments, 2000-2003.
3. * periodic articles in "newsletters," regional teaching committees of the nsa of the baha'is of australia inc., 1971-2001.
4. * periodic articles/letters, baha'i canada and the australian baha'i bulletin, 1971-2001.
5. * "memorials of the faithful," baha'i studies review, september 2001.
6. * "review of two chapbooks: the poetry of tony lee," arts dialogue, june 2001.
7. * "asia and the lost poems: the poetry of anthony lee," art 'n soul, a website for poets and poetry, january 2000.
8. * "the passionate artist," australian baha'i studies, vol.2, 2000.
9. * "memorials of the faithful," australian baha'i studies, vol.1, no.2, 1999, p.102.
10. * "poetry of ron price: an overview," abs newsletter, no.38, september 1997.
11. * "thomas a kempis, taherzadeh and the day of judgement," forum, vol.3, no 1, 1994, pp.1-3.
12. * "forward", an introduction to occasions of grace: poems and portrayals, roger white, george ronald, oxford, 1993.
13. * "the inner life and the environment", a paper presented at murdoch university at the baha’i studies conference in april 1990 and published in the environment: our common heritage, mongraph no.5, 1994, pp.118-131.
14. * "the history of a dream: a tribute to persistence", office of tafe publication, 1988, pp.5-6.
15. * "response", dialogue, vol.2, no.1, 1986, pp.3-4.
16. * "homeward bound", dialogue, vol.1, no. 1, 1985, pp.37-38.
17. * "happiness", herald of the south, vol.11, 1985, pp.26-27.
18. * "perspectives on multiculturalism", residential school papers: may to july 1983, centre for multicultural studies, armidale cae, pp.24-28.
19. * "who plays the music in your dreams?", dream international, 1983, vol.1, no.3, p.31.
20. * "consultative decision making", northern news, darwin, december, 1983.
21. "the baha'i faith: a series of 4 articles," ballarat college of advanced education, student magazine: 1977-1978.
2.2. articles and reviews: newspapers
150 articles of about 800 words each have appeared in the following newspapers and magazines:
katherine advertiser.....150,000 words
katherine times............2000 words
barkley regional...........300 words
launceston examiner....300 words
the tasmanian............. 300 words
the northern news .......300 words
cosmos...........................500 words
zirius..............................500 words
ballarat cae..................2500 words(5 articles)
newspapers on the internet...2000 words
2.3 poetry
poetry published in the following publications:
1. artgender
2. the southern gazette
3. herald of the south
4. katherine advertiser
5. four w no.6: selected works-charles sturt university
6. the southern gazette
7. australian baha’i bulletin
8. the liquid mirror
9. baha'i canada
10. abs newsletter
11. australian baha'i studies journal
12. world order: anthology
13. many(40 ca) magazines on the internet
(see my website: 'endgame' after hyperlink 42)
2.4 manuals
* 25 in-house training manuals in the management studies program for hedland college and the open college of tafe in katherine in the northern territory.(70 page average length of each manual)
* 60 study guides for the perth campus, cmc and the thornlie campus, semc in a wide range of general studies/human service subjects.(40 page average length)
….see appendix b below for list of subjects…..
2.5 books, essays and letters
2.5.1 books complete: published:
1. the emergence of a baha'i consciousness in world literature: the poetry of roger white. this is a collection of essays written from 1988 to 2002: 80,000 words.
* published by juxta publications and baha'i academics resource library,
internet sites.
2. pioneering over four epochs: an autobiographical study
and a study in autobiography, 4th edition, bwcl, 800 pages.
2.5.2 essays and letters complete: unpublished:
pioneering over four epochs: 2nd edition, 2002(1993) an autobiographical collection of essays, journals, poetry, letters, book reviews, photographs, tapes, notes and narrative written over thirty-seven years: from 1967 to 2004--five million words(approx).
2.5.3. essays complete: unpublished:
essays 1979-2002: a collection of 120 essays of 150,000 words(ca) by an international pioneer in australia in the third, fourth and fifth epochs.
* essays 2003-2004: a collection of 20 essays of 20,000 words(ca) by an international pioneer in australia in the fifth epoch.
2.5.4 letters complete: unpublished:
1967-2004. a collection of twenty-five volumes of letters to and from a pioneer in the baha’i community--some 3000 ca letters.
letters.
2.6 booklets
2.6.1 complete: unpublished:
53 booklets of poetry: 100-120 poems per booklet:
written 2004-1980....
2.7 websites
1600 pages(250,000 words) of essays, narrative, interviews, book reviews and poetry are located at some 300 websites and subsidiary websites on the internet. see my website at the link 'endgame', after site #42, for a list of many of these sites.
2.8 collections of my poetry in libraries:
1. baha'i world centre library, baha'i world centre, po box 31 001, haifa israel: 5000 poems.
2. canadian national baha'i centre library, 7200 leslie street,thornhill, ontario, l#t 6l8 canada, 300 poems.
3. australian national baha'i centre library, sydney, australia, 300 poems.
4. regional baha'i council of tasmania, po box 1126, gpo hobart, tasmania, 7001, baha'i state library of tasmania, hobart, 150 poems.
5. baha'i centre of learning library, c/-lsa of the baha'is of melville, po box 628, applecross,western australia, 6153, 200 poems.
6. local spiritual assembly library of the baha'is of burlington, ontario, canada, 150 poems.
7. international pioneer committee of the national spiritual assembly of the baha'is of canada, 7200 leslie street, thornhill, ontario, l3t 6l8, canada, 120 poems.
8. local spiritual assembly of the baha'is of brighton, po box 553, brighton, south australia, 5048, state baha'i centre library, brighton, s.a., 120 poems.
9. local spiritual assembly of the baha'is of canberra, 18 hichey court, act, 2611, baha'i centre library, 120 poems.
10. baha'i council of the northern territory, po box 2055, humpty doo, nt, 0836.
11. baha'i council of victoria, knoxfield, victoria, 3182(in preparation).
12. lsas of belmont, launceston, ballarat, darwin: hold 'some of my poetry' in their archives.
13. the afnan library, c/-george ronald publishers, 24 gardiner close,
abingdon, oxon, ox14 3ya, england has a cd of some 200,000 words.
2.9 books in libraries:
1. the emergence of a baha'i consciousness in world literature: the poetry of roger white, in the afnan library, a 'deposit library' administered by the national spiritual assembly of the baha'is of the united kingdom, april 2003.
2. the same book is in the 'baha'i academics resource library'. see http://bahai-library.org/books/white; and at juxta publications. see http://juxta.com/
3. i have been given approval to publish this book by the national literature committee of the national spiritual assembly of the baha'is of canada and juxta publications has put it on their site at: http://juxta.com/
4. pioneering over four epochs: an autobiographical study and a study in autobiography, bwcl, 2004.
2.10 essays in libraries:
1.the baha'i world centre library, 50 essays(approx)
2. various internet locations of a ‘library’ nature.
2.11 radio programs and interviews:
2.11.1 interviews: interviewed on eight occasions in eight cities and towns in australia from 1974 to 1995 on the subjects of (i) education or (ii) the baha'i faith. each interview 15 to 25 minutes.
2.11.2 programs: presented 150 half hour programs on city park radio in launceston for the launceston baha'i community: 2000-2003.
3. courses and levels taught
3.1 pre-apprentice, apprentice, epuy, pep and youth training programs(15 to 25 year old students):
* wide range of programs in these areas beginning in 1982:
-open college of tafe in katherine 1982-1986
-hedland college 1986-1987
-perth campus/balga campus 1988
-thornlie campus 1989-1999
3.2 other post-secondary institutions:full/part/time(f/p/t)
*george town school for seniors inc 1999-2003(p/t)
*charles sturt university 1995(july to october)(f/t)
* tasmanian cae 1974 and 1979(f/t)
* ballarat cae 1976-1978(f/t)
* deakin university 1977(external studies lecturer)(p/t)
* whitehorse technical college 1975(f/t)
* university of tasmania 1974(external studies lecturer)(p/t)
3.3 courses taught
during two(1980/1) of the thirty years(1974-2004) two of these years, i did not teach. i taught in the post-secondary institutions listed above; i taught some ninety differently named units of study in the humanities and social sciences. the list is too long to sight here; i have included it in appendix b below. the list includes the following general categories:
* communication studies
* social sciences
* welfare studies/human services
* education studies
* matriculation studies
* public relations/media studies
* creative and business writing
(see appendix b below for list of subjects taught)
3.4 primary and secondary school teaching experience:
a. primary:
1. sir martin frobisher school, frobisher bay, nwt, canada,1967/8.
2. cherry valley primary school, cherry valley, ontario, 1969/70.
3. picton primary school, picton, ontario, canada, 1970/1.
4. whyalla primary school, whyalla, south australia, 1971/2.
b. secondary:
1. eyre high school, whyalla, south australia, 1972/3.
2. para hills secondary school, para hills, south australia, 1973/4
4. industrial, commercial and human service employment experience: 1961-2001
(non-teaching experience)
a. summer and/or short term jobs: (each 5 months maximum)
* kitchen-assistant, a&w root beer co., aldershot, ontario, 1960.
* packer, shell oil company, hamilton, ontario, canada, 1961.
* driver-assistant, dundas slot-machine company, dundas, ontario, canada, 1962.
* data processing/storeman & packer, firestone tire and rubber corporation, hamilton, ontario, canada, 1963
* cash-register clearance, t. eaton company of canada, 1964
* repairman/assistant, bell telephone co of canada ltd., hamilton, ontario, 1964
* abstractor, canadian peace research institute, dundas, ontario, canada, 1965
* electrician's assistant, stelco of canada, hamilton, ontario, canada, 1965
* driver/salesman, good humour company, hamilton, ontario, canada, 1966
* clerk, motor vehicle license branch, dept of transport, brantford, ontario, 1967
* systems analyst, bad boy company, toronto, ontario, canada, 1968
* security work, international security, toronto, ontario, canada, 1968
* youth worker, resource centre association inc., launceston, tasmania, 1979
* journalist, abc radio, launceston, tasmania, 1979
* editor, external studies unit, tasmanian c.a.e., launceston, tasmania, 1979
b. full time jobs:(each 2 to 4 years)
* maintenance scheduler, renison goldfields p/l, zeehan, tasmania, 1981-1982
* adult educator, tafe, katherine, northern territory, 1982-1986
* public relations officer, hedland college, south hedland, wa, 1986-1987
c. casual-recent-volunteer work:(1997-2004)
* research assistant, recreation network inc(disability services) subiaco, wa, 1997
* presenter of programs, city park radio, launceston, 2000-2003.
* tutor/president, george town school for seniors, inc., george town, tasmania, 1999-2004.
5. 1 personal interests
* writing: see section 2 above for details: 1962-2004
* reading and music : 1962-2004(statement available if desired)
* the social sciences and humanities: have more than 100 files of notes, some 20 million words, collected over 40 years(1962-2004).
5.2 clubs and associations
* member of choir in george town, 2001-2004.
* public speaking assessor
rostrum, katherine, nt : 1984/6
* member of the lions club,
zeehan tasmania : 1981/2
* member of fitness centres in melbourne(1975-6), ballarat(1977-78),
perth(1989-99) and launceston(1999-2003)
* member of baseball and hockey teams in burlington: 1953/4-1962
* member of the baha’i faith : 1959-2004
(see baha’i resume below for details)
6. references, referees and portfolio of my work:
if required, i will supply transcripts, references and testimonials in relation to many of the above positions as well as references for my recent time in tasmania, 1999-2004, where my work has been as a volunteer. samples of my writing are also availabel if requested. in may 2001 i went onto an australian disability pension and i no longer applied for jobs.
___________________________________________
It has been nearly two years since I posted this resume and, now, I tie it together with the followign prose-poem:
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MORE THAN JUST BIO-DATA
Poetry is the profoundest and most moving expression of everything that most concerns us. But we do not learn much that is significant about a poem by probing into how a poem came to be written. ‘How’ and ‘what’ in poetry have little to do with each other. This century has seen a steady decline in the interest in poetry and a rise in the interest in poets. The poet’s resume, bio-data, is entirely beside the point. The psychopathology of a poet’s inspiration, indeed psychology itself, may never tell us much about poems even if we do learn a great deal about the man. The poet uses his art to impose order, unity, coherence, sanity, on the chaotic experience beneath an often placcid surface of middle-class refinements.-Ron Price with thanks to A. Alvarez, Beyond All This Fiddle: Essays 1955-1967, Allen Lane, London, 1968, pp. 5 09-519.
And then there is the autobiographical poem
that tries to place all that has gone before, all
that is going on and will go on into some ordered
whole, coherence, unity in multiplicity, like my
garden with all its greenness, its shapes, its spaces,
its paths, its domestic corners where laundry hangs:
an integrated wholeness, sanity, coolness where winds
blow rustling through the trees and the wider world
approaches on all sides by the tidy fence. The tidy
packages of my life-surface simplicity-are a chaos
of infinite complexity inside, once I take off the
ribbons: only He can unite and connect our hearts
with an indissoluble bond and resuscitate us all by
drinking at the same fountain, near the same sea.
Ron Price
14 August 1997
_____________________
That's all folks!
resume of ron price: a lot happens in a lifetime of 60 years: 1944-2004
a. my ascribed roles: grandson, son, nephew, cousin, father, step-father, uncle, step-grandfather, step-father, husband, male.
b. my achieved roles: writer, poet, essayist, author, journalist, teacher, lecturer, student and many others found in section 4 below at different times since beginning my employment life in 1961.
1.1 academic qualifications
* bachelor of arts(sociology)
mcmaster university
hamilton ontario canada 1966
* ma(qualifying thesis)
university of queensland
st lucia queensland
australia 1988
1.2 professional qualifications
* post graduate diploma in education
windsor university
windsor ontario canada 1967
* certificate of integrated studies
education department of ontario
toronto ontario canada 1970
1.3 further studies(qualifications incomplete)
* advanced dipoma in education
university of adelaide
adelaide south australia 1973
-comparative education unit
* master of educational administration
university of new england
armadale nsw 1975 to 1978
-comparative education, organization theory and practice, educational
administration, open education and history of education units
* diploma in personnel management and industrial relations
tasmanian college of advanced education
launceston tasmania 1980
-organizational behaviour-3 units
* graduate diploma in multicultural education
armadale college of advanced education
armadale nsw 1983
-language and society unit; presented paper at residential school.
* graduate diploma in religious education
south australian college of advanced education
adelaide south australia 1984 to 1986
-religious symbols and symbolism, sociology of education, the bible
as literature, moral education, islam and principles of religious education units.
1.4 transcripts and grades
* transcripts are available on request, originals or copies.
* a summary of my academic record would read:
matriculation(
, ba©, dip.ed.(, post-graduate studies(2 distinctions, 5 credits, 1 pass( and 10 pass© grades.1.5 teaching qualifications and registrations
* teaching certificate(primary) windsor teachers’ college 1967.
* registered with the primary, secondary and technical teachers
registration boards of victoria in 1978, 1978 and 1975, resp.
* granted permanency with devet (now dept of training and employment) in western australia in june 1992.
1.6 professional memberships and eligibility
* secondary school teachers union of western australia: 1987 to 1999.
branch secretary for four of those years at hedland college and the thornlie campus of the southeast metropolitan college of tafe
* australian association of educational administration: 1975 to 1976
* australian institute of welfare workers(eligible)
2. publications:
2.1 articles and reviews: journals/websites
1.*essays, interviews and articles on the internet at:
1.1 the baha'i academic resource library jonah@winterswebsorks.com.(100 items ca 'posted'); and at
1.2 some 200 ca other sites
2. * "a history of the baha'i faith in the northern territory: 1947-1997," northern lights, 32 installments, 2000-2003.
3. * periodic articles in "newsletters," regional teaching committees of the nsa of the baha'is of australia inc., 1971-2001.
4. * periodic articles/letters, baha'i canada and the australian baha'i bulletin, 1971-2001.
5. * "memorials of the faithful," baha'i studies review, september 2001.
6. * "review of two chapbooks: the poetry of tony lee," arts dialogue, june 2001.
7. * "asia and the lost poems: the poetry of anthony lee," art 'n soul, a website for poets and poetry, january 2000.
8. * "the passionate artist," australian baha'i studies, vol.2, 2000.
9. * "memorials of the faithful," australian baha'i studies, vol.1, no.2, 1999, p.102.
10. * "poetry of ron price: an overview," abs newsletter, no.38, september 1997.
11. * "thomas a kempis, taherzadeh and the day of judgement," forum, vol.3, no 1, 1994, pp.1-3.
12. * "forward", an introduction to occasions of grace: poems and portrayals, roger white, george ronald, oxford, 1993.
13. * "the inner life and the environment", a paper presented at murdoch university at the baha’i studies conference in april 1990 and published in the environment: our common heritage, mongraph no.5, 1994, pp.118-131.
14. * "the history of a dream: a tribute to persistence", office of tafe publication, 1988, pp.5-6.
15. * "response", dialogue, vol.2, no.1, 1986, pp.3-4.
16. * "homeward bound", dialogue, vol.1, no. 1, 1985, pp.37-38.
17. * "happiness", herald of the south, vol.11, 1985, pp.26-27.
18. * "perspectives on multiculturalism", residential school papers: may to july 1983, centre for multicultural studies, armidale cae, pp.24-28.
19. * "who plays the music in your dreams?", dream international, 1983, vol.1, no.3, p.31.
20. * "consultative decision making", northern news, darwin, december, 1983.
21. "the baha'i faith: a series of 4 articles," ballarat college of advanced education, student magazine: 1977-1978.
2.2. articles and reviews: newspapers
150 articles of about 800 words each have appeared in the following newspapers and magazines:
katherine advertiser.....150,000 words
katherine times............2000 words
barkley regional...........300 words
launceston examiner....300 words
the tasmanian............. 300 words
the northern news .......300 words
cosmos...........................500 words
zirius..............................500 words
ballarat cae..................2500 words(5 articles)
newspapers on the internet...2000 words
2.3 poetry
poetry published in the following publications:
1. artgender
2. the southern gazette
3. herald of the south
4. katherine advertiser
5. four w no.6: selected works-charles sturt university
6. the southern gazette
7. australian baha’i bulletin
8. the liquid mirror
9. baha'i canada
10. abs newsletter
11. australian baha'i studies journal
12. world order: anthology
13. many(40 ca) magazines on the internet
(see my website: 'endgame' after hyperlink 42)
2.4 manuals
* 25 in-house training manuals in the management studies program for hedland college and the open college of tafe in katherine in the northern territory.(70 page average length of each manual)
* 60 study guides for the perth campus, cmc and the thornlie campus, semc in a wide range of general studies/human service subjects.(40 page average length)
….see appendix b below for list of subjects…..
2.5 books, essays and letters
2.5.1 books complete: published:
1. the emergence of a baha'i consciousness in world literature: the poetry of roger white. this is a collection of essays written from 1988 to 2002: 80,000 words.
* published by juxta publications and baha'i academics resource library,
internet sites.
2. pioneering over four epochs: an autobiographical study
and a study in autobiography, 4th edition, bwcl, 800 pages.
2.5.2 essays and letters complete: unpublished:
pioneering over four epochs: 2nd edition, 2002(1993) an autobiographical collection of essays, journals, poetry, letters, book reviews, photographs, tapes, notes and narrative written over thirty-seven years: from 1967 to 2004--five million words(approx).
2.5.3. essays complete: unpublished:
essays 1979-2002: a collection of 120 essays of 150,000 words(ca) by an international pioneer in australia in the third, fourth and fifth epochs.
* essays 2003-2004: a collection of 20 essays of 20,000 words(ca) by an international pioneer in australia in the fifth epoch.
2.5.4 letters complete: unpublished:
1967-2004. a collection of twenty-five volumes of letters to and from a pioneer in the baha’i community--some 3000 ca letters.
letters.
2.6 booklets
2.6.1 complete: unpublished:
53 booklets of poetry: 100-120 poems per booklet:
written 2004-1980....
2.7 websites
1600 pages(250,000 words) of essays, narrative, interviews, book reviews and poetry are located at some 300 websites and subsidiary websites on the internet. see my website at the link 'endgame', after site #42, for a list of many of these sites.
2.8 collections of my poetry in libraries:
1. baha'i world centre library, baha'i world centre, po box 31 001, haifa israel: 5000 poems.
2. canadian national baha'i centre library, 7200 leslie street,thornhill, ontario, l#t 6l8 canada, 300 poems.
3. australian national baha'i centre library, sydney, australia, 300 poems.
4. regional baha'i council of tasmania, po box 1126, gpo hobart, tasmania, 7001, baha'i state library of tasmania, hobart, 150 poems.
5. baha'i centre of learning library, c/-lsa of the baha'is of melville, po box 628, applecross,western australia, 6153, 200 poems.
6. local spiritual assembly library of the baha'is of burlington, ontario, canada, 150 poems.
7. international pioneer committee of the national spiritual assembly of the baha'is of canada, 7200 leslie street, thornhill, ontario, l3t 6l8, canada, 120 poems.
8. local spiritual assembly of the baha'is of brighton, po box 553, brighton, south australia, 5048, state baha'i centre library, brighton, s.a., 120 poems.
9. local spiritual assembly of the baha'is of canberra, 18 hichey court, act, 2611, baha'i centre library, 120 poems.
10. baha'i council of the northern territory, po box 2055, humpty doo, nt, 0836.
11. baha'i council of victoria, knoxfield, victoria, 3182(in preparation).
12. lsas of belmont, launceston, ballarat, darwin: hold 'some of my poetry' in their archives.
13. the afnan library, c/-george ronald publishers, 24 gardiner close,
abingdon, oxon, ox14 3ya, england has a cd of some 200,000 words.
2.9 books in libraries:
1. the emergence of a baha'i consciousness in world literature: the poetry of roger white, in the afnan library, a 'deposit library' administered by the national spiritual assembly of the baha'is of the united kingdom, april 2003.
2. the same book is in the 'baha'i academics resource library'. see http://bahai-library.org/books/white; and at juxta publications. see http://juxta.com/
3. i have been given approval to publish this book by the national literature committee of the national spiritual assembly of the baha'is of canada and juxta publications has put it on their site at: http://juxta.com/
4. pioneering over four epochs: an autobiographical study and a study in autobiography, bwcl, 2004.
2.10 essays in libraries:
1.the baha'i world centre library, 50 essays(approx)
2. various internet locations of a ‘library’ nature.
2.11 radio programs and interviews:
2.11.1 interviews: interviewed on eight occasions in eight cities and towns in australia from 1974 to 1995 on the subjects of (i) education or (ii) the baha'i faith. each interview 15 to 25 minutes.
2.11.2 programs: presented 150 half hour programs on city park radio in launceston for the launceston baha'i community: 2000-2003.
3. courses and levels taught
3.1 pre-apprentice, apprentice, epuy, pep and youth training programs(15 to 25 year old students):
* wide range of programs in these areas beginning in 1982:
-open college of tafe in katherine 1982-1986
-hedland college 1986-1987
-perth campus/balga campus 1988
-thornlie campus 1989-1999
3.2 other post-secondary institutions:full/part/time(f/p/t)
*george town school for seniors inc 1999-2003(p/t)
*charles sturt university 1995(july to october)(f/t)
* tasmanian cae 1974 and 1979(f/t)
* ballarat cae 1976-1978(f/t)
* deakin university 1977(external studies lecturer)(p/t)
* whitehorse technical college 1975(f/t)
* university of tasmania 1974(external studies lecturer)(p/t)
3.3 courses taught
during two(1980/1) of the thirty years(1974-2004) two of these years, i did not teach. i taught in the post-secondary institutions listed above; i taught some ninety differently named units of study in the humanities and social sciences. the list is too long to sight here; i have included it in appendix b below. the list includes the following general categories:
* communication studies
* social sciences
* welfare studies/human services
* education studies
* matriculation studies
* public relations/media studies
* creative and business writing
(see appendix b below for list of subjects taught)
3.4 primary and secondary school teaching experience:
a. primary:
1. sir martin frobisher school, frobisher bay, nwt, canada,1967/8.
2. cherry valley primary school, cherry valley, ontario, 1969/70.
3. picton primary school, picton, ontario, canada, 1970/1.
4. whyalla primary school, whyalla, south australia, 1971/2.
b. secondary:
1. eyre high school, whyalla, south australia, 1972/3.
2. para hills secondary school, para hills, south australia, 1973/4
4. industrial, commercial and human service employment experience: 1961-2001
(non-teaching experience)
a. summer and/or short term jobs: (each 5 months maximum)
* kitchen-assistant, a&w root beer co., aldershot, ontario, 1960.
* packer, shell oil company, hamilton, ontario, canada, 1961.
* driver-assistant, dundas slot-machine company, dundas, ontario, canada, 1962.
* data processing/storeman & packer, firestone tire and rubber corporation, hamilton, ontario, canada, 1963
* cash-register clearance, t. eaton company of canada, 1964
* repairman/assistant, bell telephone co of canada ltd., hamilton, ontario, 1964
* abstractor, canadian peace research institute, dundas, ontario, canada, 1965
* electrician's assistant, stelco of canada, hamilton, ontario, canada, 1965
* driver/salesman, good humour company, hamilton, ontario, canada, 1966
* clerk, motor vehicle license branch, dept of transport, brantford, ontario, 1967
* systems analyst, bad boy company, toronto, ontario, canada, 1968
* security work, international security, toronto, ontario, canada, 1968
* youth worker, resource centre association inc., launceston, tasmania, 1979
* journalist, abc radio, launceston, tasmania, 1979
* editor, external studies unit, tasmanian c.a.e., launceston, tasmania, 1979
b. full time jobs:(each 2 to 4 years)
* maintenance scheduler, renison goldfields p/l, zeehan, tasmania, 1981-1982
* adult educator, tafe, katherine, northern territory, 1982-1986
* public relations officer, hedland college, south hedland, wa, 1986-1987
c. casual-recent-volunteer work:(1997-2004)
* research assistant, recreation network inc(disability services) subiaco, wa, 1997
* presenter of programs, city park radio, launceston, 2000-2003.
* tutor/president, george town school for seniors, inc., george town, tasmania, 1999-2004.
5. 1 personal interests
* writing: see section 2 above for details: 1962-2004
* reading and music : 1962-2004(statement available if desired)
* the social sciences and humanities: have more than 100 files of notes, some 20 million words, collected over 40 years(1962-2004).
5.2 clubs and associations
* member of choir in george town, 2001-2004.
* public speaking assessor
rostrum, katherine, nt : 1984/6
* member of the lions club,
zeehan tasmania : 1981/2
* member of fitness centres in melbourne(1975-6), ballarat(1977-78),
perth(1989-99) and launceston(1999-2003)
* member of baseball and hockey teams in burlington: 1953/4-1962
* member of the baha’i faith : 1959-2004
(see baha’i resume below for details)
6. references, referees and portfolio of my work:
if required, i will supply transcripts, references and testimonials in relation to many of the above positions as well as references for my recent time in tasmania, 1999-2004, where my work has been as a volunteer. samples of my writing are also availabel if requested. in may 2001 i went onto an australian disability pension and i no longer applied for jobs.
___________________________________________
It has been nearly two years since I posted this resume and, now, I tie it together with the followign prose-poem:
_______________
MORE THAN JUST BIO-DATA
Poetry is the profoundest and most moving expression of everything that most concerns us. But we do not learn much that is significant about a poem by probing into how a poem came to be written. ‘How’ and ‘what’ in poetry have little to do with each other. This century has seen a steady decline in the interest in poetry and a rise in the interest in poets. The poet’s resume, bio-data, is entirely beside the point. The psychopathology of a poet’s inspiration, indeed psychology itself, may never tell us much about poems even if we do learn a great deal about the man. The poet uses his art to impose order, unity, coherence, sanity, on the chaotic experience beneath an often placcid surface of middle-class refinements.-Ron Price with thanks to A. Alvarez, Beyond All This Fiddle: Essays 1955-1967, Allen Lane, London, 1968, pp. 5 09-519.
And then there is the autobiographical poem
that tries to place all that has gone before, all
that is going on and will go on into some ordered
whole, coherence, unity in multiplicity, like my
garden with all its greenness, its shapes, its spaces,
its paths, its domestic corners where laundry hangs:
an integrated wholeness, sanity, coolness where winds
blow rustling through the trees and the wider world
approaches on all sides by the tidy fence. The tidy
packages of my life-surface simplicity-are a chaos
of infinite complexity inside, once I take off the
ribbons: only He can unite and connect our hearts
with an indissoluble bond and resuscitate us all by
drinking at the same fountain, near the same sea.
Ron Price
14 August 1997
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That's all folks!
Getting your act together in the job application world can be a long story.....
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LETTER WRITING: 2 JOBS A WEEK FOR 40 YEARS: JOB HUNTING 1961-2003
The information and details in my resume, a resume I no longer use in the job-hunting world, should help anyone wanting to know something about my professional background, my writing and my life. This resume might be useful for the few who want to assess my suitability for some advertised/unadvertised employment position which, I must emphasize again, I never apply for anymore. I stopped applying for full-time jobs four years ago in 2001 and part-time ones in 2003. I also left the world of volunteer activity, except for work in one international organization, the Baha’i Faith, two years ago. The age of 62 sees me self-employed as a writer-poet. I gradually came to this role in the years after I left full-time employment in 1999, seven years ago. Not being occupied with earning a living and giving myself to 60 hours a week in a job and many other hours to community activity marked a turning point for me so that I could devote my time to a much more extensive involvement in writing. Writing is for most of its votaries a solitary and hopefully stimulating leisure-time-parttime-fulltime pursuit. In my case in these early years of my late adulthood, writing is full-time about 60 hours a week.1
Inevitably the style of one's writing is a reflection of the person, their experience and their philosophy. I have set out this experience in the attachment which follows in a logical fashion.2 If, as Carl Jung writes, we are what we do, then some of what I am can be found in the attached. This document may seem over-the-top as they say these days since it goes on for nearly 20 pages, but forty years in the professional job world produces a great pile of stuff/things. This document is an update of the last resume I used when I was in the job hunting game in 2003. I have updated it, of course, to include many of the writing projects I have taken on during these first years of my retirement from full-time, part-time and volunteer employment.
The resume has always been the piece of writing, the statement, the document, the entry ticket which, over the years, has opened up the possibilities of another adventure, another pioneering move to another town, another state or country, another location, work in another organization, another portion of my life. I'm sure that will also be the case in the years of my late adulthood(60-80) and old age(80++) should, for some reason, movement from place to place be necessary or desired. But this seems unlikely as I go through these early years of late adulthood and head into the last stages of my life.
In the last two years which are the first of my late adulthood and in early retirement(1999 to 2006), I have been able to write to a much greater extent than I had been able in my early and middle adulthood(1965 to 2004) when job, family and the demands of various community projects kept my nose to the grindstone as they say colloquially. And now, with the unloading of much of the volunteer work I took on from 1999-2005, with my last child having left home in 2005 and a more settled home environment than I’ve ever had, the years of late adulthood(age 60 to 80) beckon bright with promise. My resume reflects this shift in my activity-base.
The process of frequent moves and frequent jobs which was my pattern for forty years is not everyone's style or modus vivendi. Many millions of people live and die in the same town, city or state and their life's adventure takes place within that physical region, the confines of a relatively small place and, perhaps, a very few jobs in their lifetime. Physical movement is not essential to psychological and spiritual growth, nor is a long list of jobs, although some degree of inner change, some inner shifting is just about inevitable, or so it seems to me, especially in these recent decades. For many millions of people during the years 1961-2001, my years of being jobbed, the world was my and their oyster, not so much in the manner of a tourist, although there was plenty of that, but rather in terms of working lives which came to be seen increasingly in a global context.
This was true for me during those years when I was looking for amusement, education and experience, some stimulating vocation and avocation, some employment security and comfort, my adventurous years of pioneering, my applying-for-job days, the forty year period 1961-2001. My resume altered many times, of course, during those forty years is now for the most part, as I indicated above, not used in these years of my retirement, except as an information, bio-data, vehicle for interested readers.
This document is a useful backdrop for those examining my writing, especially my poetry, although some poets regard their CV, resume, bio-data, lifeline, life-story, personal background as irrelevant to their work. I frequently use this resume at various website locations on the Internet when I want to provide some introductory background on myself, indeed, I could list many new uses after forty years of only one use--to help me get a job, make more money, experience some enrichment to my life, etcetera. The use of the resume saves one from having to reinvent the wheel, so to speak. I don't have to say it all again in resume after resume to the point of utter tedium as I did so frequently when applying for jobs, especially in the days before the email and the internet. A few clicks of one’s personal electronic-computer system and some aspect of life’s game goes on or comes to a quick end at the other end of the electronic set of wires.
During those job-hunting years 1961-2001 I applied for some four thousand jobs, an average of two a week for each of those forty years! This is a guesstimation, of course, as accurate a guesstimation as I can calculate for this forty year period. The great bulk of the thousands of letters involved in this vast, detailed and, from time to time, exhausting and frustrating process, I did not keep. I did keep a small handful of perhaps half a dozen of those letters in a file in the Letters: Section VII, Sub-Section X of my autobiographical work, Pioneering Over Four Epochs. Given the thousands of hours over forty years devoted to the job-hunting process; given the importance of this key to the pioneering venture that is my life; given the amount of paper produced and energy expended in the process; given the amount of writing done in the context of these various jobs,3 some of the correspondence seemed to warrant a corner in the written story of my life.4
It seemed appropriate, at least it was my desire, to write this short statement fitting all those thousands of resumes into a larger context. The things we do when we retire!5
____________________________FOOTNOTES_____________________________1 This involves reading, posting on the internet, developing my own website and writing in several genres.
2 My resume is only included with this statement when it seems appropriate, on request or in my autobiography.
3 Beginning with the summer job I had in the Canadian Peace Research Institute in 1964, I wrote an unnumbered quantity of: summaries, reports, essays, evaluations, subject notes, inter alia, in my many jobs. None of that material has been kept in any of my files and, over 40 years, it amounted to literally millions, an uncountable number, of words.
4 The Letters section of my autobiography now occupies some 25 arch-lever files and two-ring binders and covers the period 1960 to 2006. I guesstimate the collection contains about 3000 letters. This does not include these thousands of job applications and their replies, thousands of emails now and an unnumbered quantity of in-house letters at places where I was employed. I have kept, as I say above, about half a dozen to a dozen of these letters.
Note: Since about 1990 thousands of emails have been sent to me and replies have been written but, like the job application, most have been deleted from any potential archive. For the most part these deleted emails seem to have no long term value in an archive of letters. They were deleted as quickly as they came in. Of course there are other emails, nearly all of the correspondence I have sent and received since about 1990 to 1995 which would once have been in the form of letters, is now in the form of emails. They are kept in my letter-files.
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LETTER WRITING: 2 JOBS A WEEK FOR 40 YEARS: JOB HUNTING 1961-2003
The information and details in my resume, a resume I no longer use in the job-hunting world, should help anyone wanting to know something about my professional background, my writing and my life. This resume might be useful for the few who want to assess my suitability for some advertised/unadvertised employment position which, I must emphasize again, I never apply for anymore. I stopped applying for full-time jobs four years ago in 2001 and part-time ones in 2003. I also left the world of volunteer activity, except for work in one international organization, the Baha’i Faith, two years ago. The age of 62 sees me self-employed as a writer-poet. I gradually came to this role in the years after I left full-time employment in 1999, seven years ago. Not being occupied with earning a living and giving myself to 60 hours a week in a job and many other hours to community activity marked a turning point for me so that I could devote my time to a much more extensive involvement in writing. Writing is for most of its votaries a solitary and hopefully stimulating leisure-time-parttime-fulltime pursuit. In my case in these early years of my late adulthood, writing is full-time about 60 hours a week.1
Inevitably the style of one's writing is a reflection of the person, their experience and their philosophy. I have set out this experience in the attachment which follows in a logical fashion.2 If, as Carl Jung writes, we are what we do, then some of what I am can be found in the attached. This document may seem over-the-top as they say these days since it goes on for nearly 20 pages, but forty years in the professional job world produces a great pile of stuff/things. This document is an update of the last resume I used when I was in the job hunting game in 2003. I have updated it, of course, to include many of the writing projects I have taken on during these first years of my retirement from full-time, part-time and volunteer employment.
The resume has always been the piece of writing, the statement, the document, the entry ticket which, over the years, has opened up the possibilities of another adventure, another pioneering move to another town, another state or country, another location, work in another organization, another portion of my life. I'm sure that will also be the case in the years of my late adulthood(60-80) and old age(80++) should, for some reason, movement from place to place be necessary or desired. But this seems unlikely as I go through these early years of late adulthood and head into the last stages of my life.
In the last two years which are the first of my late adulthood and in early retirement(1999 to 2006), I have been able to write to a much greater extent than I had been able in my early and middle adulthood(1965 to 2004) when job, family and the demands of various community projects kept my nose to the grindstone as they say colloquially. And now, with the unloading of much of the volunteer work I took on from 1999-2005, with my last child having left home in 2005 and a more settled home environment than I’ve ever had, the years of late adulthood(age 60 to 80) beckon bright with promise. My resume reflects this shift in my activity-base.
The process of frequent moves and frequent jobs which was my pattern for forty years is not everyone's style or modus vivendi. Many millions of people live and die in the same town, city or state and their life's adventure takes place within that physical region, the confines of a relatively small place and, perhaps, a very few jobs in their lifetime. Physical movement is not essential to psychological and spiritual growth, nor is a long list of jobs, although some degree of inner change, some inner shifting is just about inevitable, or so it seems to me, especially in these recent decades. For many millions of people during the years 1961-2001, my years of being jobbed, the world was my and their oyster, not so much in the manner of a tourist, although there was plenty of that, but rather in terms of working lives which came to be seen increasingly in a global context.
This was true for me during those years when I was looking for amusement, education and experience, some stimulating vocation and avocation, some employment security and comfort, my adventurous years of pioneering, my applying-for-job days, the forty year period 1961-2001. My resume altered many times, of course, during those forty years is now for the most part, as I indicated above, not used in these years of my retirement, except as an information, bio-data, vehicle for interested readers.
This document is a useful backdrop for those examining my writing, especially my poetry, although some poets regard their CV, resume, bio-data, lifeline, life-story, personal background as irrelevant to their work. I frequently use this resume at various website locations on the Internet when I want to provide some introductory background on myself, indeed, I could list many new uses after forty years of only one use--to help me get a job, make more money, experience some enrichment to my life, etcetera. The use of the resume saves one from having to reinvent the wheel, so to speak. I don't have to say it all again in resume after resume to the point of utter tedium as I did so frequently when applying for jobs, especially in the days before the email and the internet. A few clicks of one’s personal electronic-computer system and some aspect of life’s game goes on or comes to a quick end at the other end of the electronic set of wires.
During those job-hunting years 1961-2001 I applied for some four thousand jobs, an average of two a week for each of those forty years! This is a guesstimation, of course, as accurate a guesstimation as I can calculate for this forty year period. The great bulk of the thousands of letters involved in this vast, detailed and, from time to time, exhausting and frustrating process, I did not keep. I did keep a small handful of perhaps half a dozen of those letters in a file in the Letters: Section VII, Sub-Section X of my autobiographical work, Pioneering Over Four Epochs. Given the thousands of hours over forty years devoted to the job-hunting process; given the importance of this key to the pioneering venture that is my life; given the amount of paper produced and energy expended in the process; given the amount of writing done in the context of these various jobs,3 some of the correspondence seemed to warrant a corner in the written story of my life.4
It seemed appropriate, at least it was my desire, to write this short statement fitting all those thousands of resumes into a larger context. The things we do when we retire!5
____________________________FOOTNOTES_____________________________1 This involves reading, posting on the internet, developing my own website and writing in several genres.
2 My resume is only included with this statement when it seems appropriate, on request or in my autobiography.
3 Beginning with the summer job I had in the Canadian Peace Research Institute in 1964, I wrote an unnumbered quantity of: summaries, reports, essays, evaluations, subject notes, inter alia, in my many jobs. None of that material has been kept in any of my files and, over 40 years, it amounted to literally millions, an uncountable number, of words.
4 The Letters section of my autobiography now occupies some 25 arch-lever files and two-ring binders and covers the period 1960 to 2006. I guesstimate the collection contains about 3000 letters. This does not include these thousands of job applications and their replies, thousands of emails now and an unnumbered quantity of in-house letters at places where I was employed. I have kept, as I say above, about half a dozen to a dozen of these letters.
Note: Since about 1990 thousands of emails have been sent to me and replies have been written but, like the job application, most have been deleted from any potential archive. For the most part these deleted emails seem to have no long term value in an archive of letters. They were deleted as quickly as they came in. Of course there are other emails, nearly all of the correspondence I have sent and received since about 1990 to 1995 which would once have been in the form of letters, is now in the form of emails. They are kept in my letter-files.
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