Surrey (1975~1985)
- Decorative candle maker and sales assistant (with my Mom)
- Editor of Pig Express community newsletter
- The Columbian newspaper delivery
- Surrey Leader newspaper delivery
- Real Estate Weekly newspaper delivery
- Associate Editor V.O.M fanzine
Utah Valley (1985 ~ 1988)
- Pizza Feast – pizza making guy
Pizza Beast – ibid - Supplement factory worker (Provo) – a string of super lame temp worker jobs, including one which repacked cheap tea from Taiwan into fancy boxes and sold them as a miracle cure, other gigs of equally dubious value
- Janitor cleaning the office of a car dealership and a credit union or mortgage company of some kind (hi-jinks ensued!)
- Software assembly line – another temp job packaging word perfect software
- Phone surveyor for political and commercial interests (a rite of passage for many in the area, worst job ever… but i had my revenge… #story)
- Night librarian (Utah Valley Community college) possibly best job ever!
Toronto, ON (1987)
- Squeegee Squad (under-qualified window washing) Co-proprietor and washer of windows
- Furnace cleaning service salesguy (via phone, in summer)
- German bakery cleaner-upper (for ornery Germans, at night)
Burnaby, BC (1989)
- Bicycle repairman and assembler (Sharpey’s)
SLC, UT (1990)
- Land surveyor assistant (Heber, Park City etc with Bing Christensen) note: was lousy at this job
- Cinematic newspaper distributor (Cinema in your Face) note: was great at this job taking paper to every cafe, bar – with fake ID – and book or record shop in area)
- Word perfect class teacher (Univ. of Utah)
On the road (1991~~?)
- Academic paper writer
- Grilled cheese maker
- Parking lot beer seller
- Psychedelic experience consultant
- Herbal distributor
- Car delivery driver
Logan, UT (1992)
- Bicycle repairman and assembler (Sunrise)
Germany (1992)
- Rock band roadie (slacker, didn’t really *do* anything)
- Grape picker (Rhodt, Germany)
- Chestnut gatherer and seller (also Rhodt, Germany)
Japan, Tottori and Nagano (1993-4)
- Mushroom farmhand (Saji, Tottori Japan)
- Rice harvester (Nagano)
- hitchhiking hippie poet/diplomat
- “Flower stick” juggling stick maker and seller
- Hemp bag maker and seller
Guam, Micronesia (1994-96)
- Japanese-speaking Private Beach Club host (Star Sand)
- Bi-lingual tour narrator on submarine tour boat (SS Neptune) offering tour in Japanese and Korean
- High School teacher educating about Japanese and english in Guam JFK HS
- Flower Stick and Hemp bag maker/seller
Olympia, WA (1996-2005)
- Writer (essays for High Times, Cannabis Culture, Journal of Int Hemp Assoc, Menu etc)
- Hemp bag designer and marketer (HempenWare)
- Film producer and marketer (HempenRoad)
- Maker of websites (so many!) and Teacher of Internets (Internet Adventures)
- Marketing and business development guy for Olywa >ATG > Zhonka (a good run!)
Vancouver, BC (2006-2013)
- Writer (articles in Heads, Cannabis Culture, Megaphone, Vancouver Observer and many other outlets)
- Podcast maker (several)
- “New school” marketing / communications / community / media-maker and community amplifier at various dot-coms, ergo:
- Elastic Path – Mktg Coord
- Happyfrog – Strategic Advisor
- Raincity Studios – Community Marketing Evangelist
- Movieset – Director of Fan Communities
- HootSuite – Marketing Director > VP Community #bigtime
NOTE: Loads of public speaking and community project ring-leading in this era
Victoria, BC (2013)
- Scrapbook maker
Elsewhere (2014-2018)
- Storymaker / wandering poet and podcaster maker
- Wrangler of Archeology Records
Okayama, Japan (2019~)
- making paintings, poems, postcards, sometimes all at once, also audio/video sometimes