Experience

Lauderdale County School System

• Education Administration Programs
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Disability Retirement

  • Jun 2011 - Present

  Endured pain and surgeries. My mind is still sharp, but my body is not in such great shape. I have several medical conditions, that prevented me from efficiently completing my job as a classroom educator. I felt it was time to step down and turn the job over to someone younger and able to give the students the full attention they deserve. I enjoy reading, watching educational programs on TV, movies, and computing. Endured pain and surgeries. My mind is still sharp, but my body is not in such great shape. I have several medical conditions, that prevented me from efficiently completing my job as a classroom educator. I felt it was time to step down and turn the job over to someone younger and able to give the students the full attention they deserve. I enjoy reading, watching educational programs on TV, movies, and computing.

• 5th Grade School Teacher

  • 1993 - 2011

The Glidden Paint Company
• Glidden Paint Sales

  • Apr 1984 - Aug 1989


The Five Horsemen

• Bartender/Manager

  • Sep 1976 - Apr 1984

  Former skating rink converted to a very large nightclub. There were three sections. I worked the service bar from opening until the live entertainment would stop at midnight. Then move to work the disco bar from midnight until 2 AM. Between the two separate clubs there was a game room with 8 pool tables, other games, and a full bar. Fortunately, I only had to work 4 days each week, as it was a hard job. I was fortunate to meet many well known music artist who were in Muscle Shoals recording. Glen Frey, Delbert McClinton, Julian Lennon, John Anderson, Percy Sledge, Sha Na Na, Lynyrd Skynyrd, George Jones,Joe Cocker, and many more. I was usually their personal bartender while they were unwinding from a day's work. Show less



Union Carbide

• Chemical Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Worker at Union Carbide Carbon Brick Plant

  • May 1972 - Aug 1980

  Worked shipping and receiving, loading rail cars and flat bed trucks using a fork lift, operated high voltage and high compression presses, worked in the finishing mill and the saw shed where carbon bricks, which were made to line steel mill blast furnaces, custom cutting them to withing 1/32 inch tolerance.I was the Union Representative and negotiated two separate contracts, one going into mediation. Finally, I was promoted to shift foreman, which required many duties such as entering machine readings and logging in materials, charting the hours from the worker's time cards, and many other jobs too numerous to list here. Show less