Bio

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Married man. Joyce reader. Seasonal biker. Casual photographer. Smashing Pumpkins fan. Interested in medieval history, graphic design, social media and internet marketing.

    

                                                                


Professional

I’ve been studying for five years to be a historian. Next 10 years I spent doing something completely different.

First, selling clothes for over two years. I’m still a master of folding clothes and puting them in neat piles.

Then I found myself managing a rather big store of one of the mobile network operators. And I was good at that. But I’m still using the mobile I bought five years ago and writing a text message is a torture for me. It doesn’t mean I haven’t learned anything…

Lastly, I came to a place where I supposed to be an administrative-sales support-customer service-logistics-warehouse-accountig employee. And I’ve been for a long time. But apart from that I became a marketing, graphic design and printing specialist which was the work I realy enjoyed and I hope to enjoy in future.

What next?

22 responses on “Bio”

  1. Variety is the spice of life. And there is an added benefit. You get to determine which walks of life have the most impact of your presence on this earth. Your ancestors left an impact and now it is your opportunity. Good luck. Wally (Vaju)

  3. Interesting! I’m really good at folding T-shirts! I have a technique I picked up from some Chinese woman in a video on YouTube!

    Who’s Grogan? What’s the story behind the blog-address? :)

    • I’m not as good at folding as Chinese I’m affraid. But I think I’m better than average man :-)

      Mother Grogan is a fictional character talked about (or rather mocked about) in a dialogue in the first chapter of James Joyce’s “Ulysses”. She’s sort of archetype of old Irish woman of lower class and Irish folk wisdom, but of course there are many in-depth interpretations of this character to be found here and there. I don’t think there’s any idea or story behind me choosing her to be the patron of my blog (and not only this blog: mothergrogan is a nickname I use in other web services). The dialogue where she’s mentioned always makes me laugh, and is one of the parts that I remember the best from the novel. Maybe it’s because sometimes I feel that I’m a bit like mother Grogan: I think that my thoughts and ideas are very wise and new when actually they are secondary and of no importance.

      Here you can find the part of “Ulysses” relating to mother Grogan: http://mothergrogan.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/mg.pdf

      • That’s wonderful! I haven’t read it. Started with Finnegan’s Wake but quickly gave up, when I realised it wasn’t for me :)
        I’ll check out the link now ..

        • Started with FW?! Bad idea :-) I’ve read almost all Joyce’s works but gave up FW after 100 or so pages :-(

          I think you’d better start with one of the short stories from “Dubliners”. I’d highly recommend “The Dead”.

  6. Thanks for the follow over on my blog. I love your photos, and glad we’ve bumped in to each other! And now, I’m off to practice folding clothes!

  11. Don’t worry, some of us have a more sordid job history than that. Love those photos, keep it up! And thanks for following me.

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