Here's something new: describe your life on a single page by writing single-sentence snapshots of your life at 5-year intervals. Here's my one-page history:
5 years ago: Teaching math, science and information technology at an independent school in British Columbia.
10 years ago: Independent consultant doing functional specification documents for industrial software development projects in Georgia (US).
15 years ago: Staff consultant at software company in Seattle, applying their products to customers' needs and designing software to fill any gaps.
20 years ago: Selecting computers, designing networks and implementing process management software at large new pulp mills in northern Alberta.
25 years ago: Teaching computers, electronics and logic to engineering technologists at a new division of a college in Surrey, British Columbia.
30 years ago: Developing software to automate the startup of a process plant in British Columbia.
35 years ago: Overseas resident control systems engineer for a project to design and build a large pulp and paper mill in Poland.
40 years ago: Owner/operator of an business doing recording, editing, and duplication of radio programs and educational material in Vancouver, BC.
45 years ago: University student and anti-apartheid activist in Durban, South Africa.
50 years ago: At boarding school in Lusaka, Zambia completing A-level university entrance requirements in math and science.
55 years ago: Completing elementary school and editing the class annual.
60 years ago: Leaving the UK and flying to my new home in Northern Rhodesia.
65 years ago: Learning to hate the daily spoonful of cod liver oil all British kids got from the National Health System!
Thursday, August 23, 2012
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