A 45 Year Career

 

My first job after graduating from high school was as a textile worker while attending college, then a chemical packer, and a communications technician in the Navy.  After the Navy I returned to my old job and returned to college.  

After college, I worked as director of product efficacy for a microbiological media manufacturer, then Executive Director of an Arts Council.  

In the early 1980s, I became Director of Industrial Training for a community in NC, the relocated to TN to work for a community as Director of Quality Industrial Training.

I left the community college system and became Corporate Director of Quality for a plastics manufacturer but did not like the corporate life and returned to the community college system as Director of Industrial Training.

In the late 1990s, began teaching project management computer classes at ITT Technical Institute, where I began Program Chair, Assistant Dean, Dean, then relocated to KY as Director of Education.

The last three years of my career, I taught business class for a University in East TN where I ultimately retired 10 years ago.

It seems most of my 45 year career has revolved in and around education, although that was never my original intention when I was in college.  

I like being in business and I like being in management, but if I had it to do all over again, I would have gotten my PhD in Business and been a college professor all my life.