I retired at age 62 in 1994. I was V.P. of R & D for Lenox, a fine china and crystal manufacturer. I was in charge of certain engineering and laboratory operations and served on the executive committee that decided when, where and how to design new factories. In my 18 years at Lenox, we constructed several factories. This meant that my people had to develop new products and methods of manufacturing for these factories. I and some of my engineers traveled the world looking for equipment and materials. We spent $39 million building these factories.

We also had build a larger facility for engineering and R & D activities and we had to increase our staff. During this period I was serving as Chair of the Government Liaison Committee of the American Ceramic society and I spent a lot of time in Washington, D.C. working with OSHA and FDA. I was also President of the Ceramic Association of New Jersey.

When I retired, I was asked to be the editor of Ceramic Industry Magazine, an international engineering magazine. After two years of doing some work for my church, which was to build a Spanish branch of the church in Atlantic City, we moved to Arizona so I could get back to the West where I was born. I left the magazine after two years because I wanted more time for fishing and fiddling around.

I wrote four novels in Arizona, two westerns and two detective mystery novels. I started writing for EZA and I wrote hundreds of articles for them. I still write an occasional article for them when asked. I wrote on every subject imaginable. I started writing when I was an engineering professor at Iowa State University where I wrote a couple of engineering books (and added one later) and a historical fiction novel for children which I never bothered to publish. I tried my hand at SciFi but never finished anything of interest. But I did write a lot of that stuff for EZA and there may be a sprinkling of that at StreetArticles where I now do most of my writing.

So I have a background in writing and working with product design and marketing people and executive management. It didn't take me long to learn that having such a background is not necessarily good for Internet marketing where is seem better to start from scratch.

Too much education can mean too much learning and not enough doing.

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Great story, thanks for sharing.
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You are welcome. John
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Great write up! Thank you for sharing your experience.
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Thanks for sharing your experiences.I,like yourself is retired from the usaf,and the medical field.I am still going thru all this wealth of information.The more i read,the more promise I see in this program....keep sharing.
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I thank you too. Hang in there! John
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Cheers John, great to have you in the WA family!
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I thank you, Jamie. Great Success! John
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Thanks for sharing John. I haven't the experience or sheepskins that you have but I'm chugging away down here with the little people. One day I'll be at your level, given enough time.
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All you young guys pass me up. Thanks!
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