: About Me

I'm a 55 year old truck driver who caught the writing bug two years. I'm presently enrolled in an on line creative writing course and enjoy writing mysteries and fiction of all kinds. My email address is-tomrinkes2002@yahoo.com, and would enjoy any and all comments on my submissions.

My passion is ...

Fiction

I know too much about ...

Road life, night people and motels.

My parents always told me ...

You'll never get to heaven if you keep doing that.

My childhood ambition ...

F.B.I. agent

My favorite memory ...

1968 road trip to Mannington, W.Va. with my step-grandfather.

Why I write ...

Don't know yet, but I am having fun.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Grisham, E.B. White, textbooks. History channel and classic rock.

My first job ...

Typewriter serviceman.

My best moment ...

The birth of both my children and grand-children.

My inspiration ...

My mother, who was an excellent religious writer.

Jobs & Careers > Office Politics Advice on how to deal with hostile bosses

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We've all worked for them a time or two. The kind of boss who can go from zero to A - hole in 3.2 seconds or less; seemingly breaking their own world record each and every Monday. Oh, you can try to understand them by walking a mile in their shoes, but then you'd be a mile away from them and you'll have their shoes, and I fail to see the downside of that scenario. Maybe I should quit while I'm ahead. The fact is most people who choose management positions do so for three reasons; money, prestige and power. The latter attracts the type who was bullied in school and the geek that everyone ma...

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