cazalea[Seiko Moderator]
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Author, Editor, Publisher
Dec 08, 2022,15:37 PM
My whole working career (now retired) was in this order:
Newspapers, then books for youth workers and church groups, then automotive repair and parts catalogs and diagnostics, estimating and labor time guides, then car price guides and residual value predictions, repair shop management & inventory systems, and then back out of automotive to elementary school mathematics textbooks K-6 grades. This involved working with my mind (and fingertips).
In between jobs or degrees I worked for bicycle shops and metal fabrication companies, always working with my hands and trying not to damage my fingertips.
Along the way I learned about typesetting, composition of lines and pages, digital graphics, publishing systems and databases. But I always stayed on the "word processing" side rather than the "number crunching" side of the business -- what we called a "subject matter expert" rather than "general management".
So my interest in watches was a great fit since I migrated from loving and working on bikes to cars and now mostly watches. And in the automotive industry (just ask Jocke) there are plenty of folks still interested in mechanical things.
While consulting for about 10 years I worked for a number of business owners who typically would be wealthy enough to dabble in watches and willing to discuss them... none more so than my buddy Alec (may he rest in peace):
Cazalea / Mike