Name:

Ann-Margret Parke.

Ann-Margret ' Get it right ' Parke.

Date of birth:

27/03/68

The Summer of Love

Education achieved:

Secondary Education Achievement Certificate.

Took about five primary schools to get me this far. 2 in England. Each with it's own way of doing Maths.

Drawing, French, Industrial Arts, Type writing, Animal husbandry, Horticulture, Family living/social development.

John Willcocks High sucked. I didn't know anybody at school who had the ambition of going to uni (Gads!) and there seemed to be an attitude that we were all marking time before entering the real world, and a job behind the counter at Coles. Woohoo.

Certificate of Secondary Education; Year 12.

I liked Mandurah high school. I met my best friends Diana and Nina there.

Subjects, English, Human Biology, Arts, Theatre Arts, Applying Maths, Home Economics.

Kelmscott Senior High showed me what Study and achieving your goals was all about. People had 'expectations', and darn it, I found I had, too.

Certificate of Applied Science.

An ongoing project...

Subjects, Math's fundamental, Lab Techniques, Geology, Physics, Photography & Microscopy, Comp applied science, Chemistry, Lab procedures, Statistics.

Additional Work related achievements

Bobcat license.

I passed these. Other people with me passed these. You should be afraid.

Employment history:

Greenacres Riding School. 1984/5. (school holidays) Stable hand. #Horse care, feeding, rugging, nursing, saddling, grooming, supervision of students.

17 hand high some of those beasts were. I remember best grass skiing behind this mini pony called Mickey Mouse while trying to catch him (a bowl of char did the trick in the end.) And going into a paddock after some escaped horses, only to realise it was the bull paddock, and I was surrounded.

Rockingham Shire CEP. Early 1987. #Greenskeeper/ maintenance. #Fencing, leveling, watering, laying side rubber, brick laying, trench/post hole digging.

So cool, I learnt so many useful things. Don't drill a hole into a piece of wood while resting it on your knee, for one. And the right preparation before you start your job can save a lot of heartache in the end. And then there was, 'dig a hole and sit in it' Fred. Won't forget him.

Lobena Handicrafts. September 1987. Shop assistant. #Sales, book work, cleaning, displays, handling customers, banking, pricing.

Daily.

Griffith WA Services. 6 months 1987. Shipping project coordinator. #Liaison via phone, sample supervision.

Occasionally I answered the phone, and let people know where they were actually meant to be.

Hospitality Inn. 1988. House Maid. Domestic cleaning.

Time management. And how to fold toilet paper so it is easy to access. The memories.

Meekatharra Pub. 2 months 1988. Kitchen-hand/house keeper. #Food prep, cleaning etc.

A lover, A cat called Southern Cross, a friend called Spider, radio addiction, a theft of numerous knickers, the boss from hell, a look at pub kitchens. Loved Meeka. Wouldn't wanna live there.

Mallina Holdings. 1989/91. Laboratory Assistant. Quality control, marketing.

At last, a real Lab assistant. Working on multi coloured Kitty Litter was the bomb. Plus there was Norm, cats and basketball.

AMC Mineral Sands. 1991. Day Crew. #Clearing bogged conveyer belts, stocking up plant chemicals, maintaining work areas, servicing vehicles.

Shit kickers, we were. Any nasty, hard, smelly job, we got to do. There was bobcat and forklift driving, however. And occasionally, the big truck. Chuckle. Oh yes. And a big belt knife for cutting things. And a special technique for shovelling large piles of heavy mineral from one spot to another. And stairs. Lot's of stairs.

AMC/RGC/ WA Sands- what th' hell are we calling ourselves now? Oh yeah - Iluka!

Lab Rat again. Happy Happy Joy Joy. Skills at last employed, diligence rewarded. Holidays frowned on.

Interests:

Building Web Pages.

Well, big surprise! Now go on, look back at the index page, shoo, flee, fly, be off...