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My professional capabilities: Technically degreed (BS Chemistry), strategic marketer with extensive experience selling and developing new business for both Fortune 500 and private companies. Proven ability to create marketing and sales programs to leap ahead

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Other What would you consider to be the most important things that have been a major inspiration in your life and why?: 6 of 155
One day in early October I had just lost my job. I had also pushed to the limit my car's ability to run on fumes. I pulled to the side of the road and looked up the AAA number while several cars sailed by. I admit I should have AAA on my speed dial by now, but that's another story. It wasn't a good day.Presently a car pulled ... More..
Travel > Travel Diaries & Adventures (Other) Weird travel stories: 3 of 69
ONE HOUR TO LIVEI might have just sixty minutes left alive.Shortly after take-off our pilot announced that he believed we'd had a tire blowout in the nose wheel, where a flat can make landing a difficult experience.As they had great emergency services in O'Hare, our destination, the pilot said he had elected to continue on to... More..
Creative Writing > Memoirs Testimonials: Humorous stories from of job loss and unemployment: 6 of 71
THE BUZZARDS ATE MY FLESH: I heard the flapping first, then looked up. A couple stories above me, in the city, were vultures. They were resting on the building's ledge and circling over the entrance. Big black nasty-looking buzzards, watching me as I walked into the building. I'm looking for work. They're looking for food. I ... More..
Autos > Driving & Safety Driver safety: Prevent road rage: 9 of 66
Cross SignalsThere I was in my suit, late for my flight to my job interview, and the big, bearded construction worker in the pickup truck In front of me was mad. I gather I had unknowingly cut him off somewhere along the way. Now there he was, eloquently expressing his feelings about my offense in his rearview mirror. He deci... More..
Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Dating: 9 of 49
MY WORST DATEIn my single days I was having some problems that my family doc couldn't seem to figure out. I liked going to his office, though. One particular nurse always checked my vital signs; it seems she always found my pulse way too high, though I swear it dropped to normal as soon as I left the office.I wanted to get to... More..
Travel > Travel Diaries & Adventures (Other) The most beautiful places you've traveled to: 14 of 76
CLIMBING FOOLSJapanese wisdom has it that you're a fool if you've never climbed Mt. Fuji; also that you're twice the fool if you climb it more than once. By this definition, I'm no longer a fool, but I have no intention of re-attaining the status.Reaching the top of Mt. Fuji -"Fuji san cho" - is a must-do of Japanese life, th... More..
Travel > Travel Diaries & Adventures (Other) Travel experiences: Road trip tales: 22 of 117
BITE METhe black widow lived in the same Louisville four-star hotel room I'd rented for the night. I don't know where her nest was, maybe behind the bed. Like a vampire she was nocturnal. Perhaps she sensed I'd been listening in the car to a Christopher Moore novel about vampires. Perhaps she liked my snoring as much as my wi... More..
Business > International Business & Trade Doing business in Japan: Language and communication: 2 of 4
Communicating with Japanese in English"Let's all go get drunk and have sex with the waitstaff!" At least, that's the rough translation of what my long-ago boss proclaimed to the packed room in very stilted, and incorrect, Japanese. He had meant to wrap up the meeting with the Japanese board of directors (of our largest custom... More..