At various times during my working life I also taught school. My website continues this by teaching what I have learned during my adventures in mechanical engineering. Still doing the “jack of a few trades” thing and having fun.
The real bend in my life line has been the discovery that I like to write. Well, I’ve known that for a long time but retirement has given me time to indulge. That stuff is in the Essays section. I’m doing this all bass ackwards, that is, I’m writing at the beginning of thinking and studying rather than after a long education and years of work in academia. I write to explore the “temper of my mind” – to find out how I have constructed my mental and emotional world and more importantly why.
My blogs are not scholarship but exploration, curiosity, asking questions, finding out how things work. Just like facing the controls of a new machine tool and figuring out how to operate it, I write as an individual tightly bound in a society, a culture, and trying to understand how I and it function individually and collectively.
I based the title of my website on a phrase that I heard in my youth: jack of all trades, master of none. I have not heard it in a long time, but I recalled it for the title of my website. Looking back and surveying my life I understand that I was a jack of several trades, that I preferred to know something of a wide variety of skills rather than a complete mastery of one.
So come along with me, let us walk together talking of “…shoes and ships and sealing wax….” And of some other things