Making Money
Rather than having a job for life I have had an unfolding adventure where every new chapter has been an exciting challenge which saw me jump out of bed looking forward to the coming day. The more I focussed on the adventure rather than on making money, the more easily money came my way.
| Secondary School teacher | Taught for 3 years at Nailsworth Technical High School |
| Renovator | Bought renovated and sold approximately 30 houses |
| Market Researcher | For Simpson Pope. Managed Market Research department. Worked on general consumer research and new product design. |
| Marketing Manager | For Simpson Pope. Responsible for market research, public relations, advertising, promotion and information systems. |
| Principal | Established Marketprobe Research doing market and social research for corporate and government clients. |
| Principal | Established Trojan Owen and Associates. Continued with market and social research but expanded into community conflict management, community consultation, environmental impact assessment, town planning and project management. Clients included Woolworths, BP and Shell, Myers, John Martins, Jennings Industries, numerous local councils, Department of transport, Engineering and Water Supply Department, Housing Trust. Projects included Morphetville Bus Depot; conflict management and preparation of Environmental Impact Assessment. River Murray Salinity Control Program; community consultation and preparation of Environmental Impact Assessment. OBahn Bus-way; conflict management. Rundle Mall; conflict management and market research. |
| Roller disco | Established first modern Roller disco in Adelaide “The Hindmarsh Rollodrome”. |
| Fuzzies Farm | Established a co-housing community at Norton Summit. Attracted and supervised 2500 volunteers. Set up small scale income ventures including café, historic tours, bed and breakfast, wood crafting, dried flower exporting and organic farm. |
| Builder / Developer | Residential developments on my own behalf and for various clients. Currently creating co-housing projects. Import building products from China. |