A lifetime resume in chronological order
1957-8: Paperboy delivering the Des Moines Register.
1958-9: Paperboy delivering the Daily Gate City.
1960-63: Dairy hand. Filling milk bottles, cleaning vats, and washing milk cans at The Sunbeam Dairy.
1963-65: Gas station attendant.
1966: Janitor and parts man for Chevrolet dealership. Apprentice machinist. Factory Worker in black rubber injection molding plant.
1967: Runner for brokerage firm on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade. Line freight driver for American Airlines, O’Hare International Airport.
1967-71: Conscription in the United States Navy. Boot camp in San Diego, airplane line mechanic and major overhaul fabricator China Lake, Ca. Also a bar tender at the Acey/Ducey club and the officer’s club. Launch crew member aboard the U.S.S. Independence.
1971: Sale clerk for John Deere consumer products dealer prior to starting art school.
1971-72: Installer for Place/Allrich Galleries, San Francisco, Ca. Undergraduate student at The San Francisco Art Institute.
1973: Silicon crystal grower for National Semi-Conductor, Mountain View, Ca.
1973-74: Business manager for OMI of Los Angeles. Playwright in Residence and actor for Synthaxis Theatre Company, Hollywood, Ca.
1975: Owner of grounds maintenance company, then sold and became owner/operator of an over-the-road tractor trailer leased to North American Van Lines.
1975-76: Apartment owner/landlord. Used car salesman.
1977-78: Truck driver for Vermillion Bros. hauling perishables in the Chicago to California funnel.
1978-79: Vice-president Sales for Autoworld, Inc.
1979-80: Truck driver Vermillion Bros. during school breaks, and returned to art school. Worked as sales clerk in T-shirt store on fisherman’s Wharf while in school. Undergraduate student at The San Francisco Art Institute.
1981-82: New and used car salesman for Sill Motors, Inc. a multi-line GM dealership.
1982-3: Truck driver for Heartland Express.
1983-85: Telemarketing sales rep for Clement Communications.
1985-86: Account Manager for Val-Pak of the Delaware Valley.
1986-1995: Corporate sales & marketing manager for Transport International Pool, Inc., a GE Capital Co.
1996 to 2005: Salesman and Marketer for Hale Trailer Brake & Wheel, Inc..
2002: Creation of michaelfeilarts.com
2008 to 2009: Branch Manager for National Semi Trailer Corporation.
2010: U.S. Census Bureau, Enumerator for Census2010.
2006-Present: Business Broker for The Sunbelt Network of Pennsylvania, Inc.
1958-9: Paperboy delivering the Daily Gate City.
1960-63: Dairy hand. Filling milk bottles, cleaning vats, and washing milk cans at The Sunbeam Dairy.
1963-65: Gas station attendant.
1966: Janitor and parts man for Chevrolet dealership. Apprentice machinist. Factory Worker in black rubber injection molding plant.
1967: Runner for brokerage firm on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade. Line freight driver for American Airlines, O’Hare International Airport.
1967-71: Conscription in the United States Navy. Boot camp in San Diego, airplane line mechanic and major overhaul fabricator China Lake, Ca. Also a bar tender at the Acey/Ducey club and the officer’s club. Launch crew member aboard the U.S.S. Independence.
1971: Sale clerk for John Deere consumer products dealer prior to starting art school.
1971-72: Installer for Place/Allrich Galleries, San Francisco, Ca. Undergraduate student at The San Francisco Art Institute.
1973: Silicon crystal grower for National Semi-Conductor, Mountain View, Ca.
1973-74: Business manager for OMI of Los Angeles. Playwright in Residence and actor for Synthaxis Theatre Company, Hollywood, Ca.
1975: Owner of grounds maintenance company, then sold and became owner/operator of an over-the-road tractor trailer leased to North American Van Lines.
1975-76: Apartment owner/landlord. Used car salesman.
1977-78: Truck driver for Vermillion Bros. hauling perishables in the Chicago to California funnel.
1978-79: Vice-president Sales for Autoworld, Inc.
1979-80: Truck driver Vermillion Bros. during school breaks, and returned to art school. Worked as sales clerk in T-shirt store on fisherman’s Wharf while in school. Undergraduate student at The San Francisco Art Institute.
1981-82: New and used car salesman for Sill Motors, Inc. a multi-line GM dealership.
1982-3: Truck driver for Heartland Express.
1983-85: Telemarketing sales rep for Clement Communications.
1985-86: Account Manager for Val-Pak of the Delaware Valley.
1986-1995: Corporate sales & marketing manager for Transport International Pool, Inc., a GE Capital Co.
1996 to 2005: Salesman and Marketer for Hale Trailer Brake & Wheel, Inc..
2002: Creation of michaelfeilarts.com
2008 to 2009: Branch Manager for National Semi Trailer Corporation.
2010: U.S. Census Bureau, Enumerator for Census2010.
2006-Present: Business Broker for The Sunbelt Network of Pennsylvania, Inc.
Publishing Credits
Articles:
Transport Topics, “How to Buy A Used Trailer”, June 10, 1991.
Impact, “Sprucing for Spring”, “Avoiding the Water Hazard”, Spring 1991.
Philadelphia Small Business Journal, “Sales Production Points System to Create Sales”, June 1988, “Telephone Skills That Close Sales”, August 1988.
Trailer Tracks (TIP Corporate Newsletter), “The Long Term Lease/Lease Purchase Conversion”, “Small Deals Reap Big Profits”, “Record Setting Sales Events...”.
Poetry:
The Middlewesterner, Saturday’s Poem, “Woodside Diner”, online 2001.
Camping In A Middle Class Pasture selected poems 1971-1999, 108 pps. Authors House, 2003.
Holland American Lines- M. S. Ryndam, Daily Program, a haiku, “Glacier”, July 7, 1996.
The Advocate, “Passing Forty”, “Lunch Special”, August 1989.
Brussels Sprout, “You Hold Me In”, September 1989.
MANUSCRIPTS AVAILABLE
Poetry:
Growing Up Midwestern. (In progress).
Fiction:
The Elk Herd in the Land of Eighteen Meadows, children’s book series about thewhimsical adventures of an herd of elk that reside at the Banff Springs Golf Course and Country Club. Three books completed, prospects for additional.
An Outlaw Meets God, a novel about a contemporary outlaw that dies accidentally and ends up in heaven with a God that trades for his illegal substances, and carouses with the late, great bandits of all time. (Completed).
Couples, Kids and Naught, a short story collection. (Completion March 2010).
The Duck Blind Chronicles, a novel in progress.
WRITER IN RESIDENCE
Synthaxis Theatre Company, Hollywood, CA, 1973-74. Adapted Jerome Rothenberg’s Technicians of the Sacred to the stage.
EDUCATION
19th Annual Rutgers-Camden Spring Writer’s Conference, March 2007,
New School for Social Research, graduate studies in cultural anthropology, 1983-84.
New York University Summer Writer’s Conference, July 1983.
San Francisco Art Institute, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, December 1980.
Transport Topics, “How to Buy A Used Trailer”, June 10, 1991.
Impact, “Sprucing for Spring”, “Avoiding the Water Hazard”, Spring 1991.
Philadelphia Small Business Journal, “Sales Production Points System to Create Sales”, June 1988, “Telephone Skills That Close Sales”, August 1988.
Trailer Tracks (TIP Corporate Newsletter), “The Long Term Lease/Lease Purchase Conversion”, “Small Deals Reap Big Profits”, “Record Setting Sales Events...”.
Poetry:
The Middlewesterner, Saturday’s Poem, “Woodside Diner”, online 2001.
Camping In A Middle Class Pasture selected poems 1971-1999, 108 pps. Authors House, 2003.
Holland American Lines- M. S. Ryndam, Daily Program, a haiku, “Glacier”, July 7, 1996.
The Advocate, “Passing Forty”, “Lunch Special”, August 1989.
Brussels Sprout, “You Hold Me In”, September 1989.
MANUSCRIPTS AVAILABLE
Poetry:
Growing Up Midwestern. (In progress).
Fiction:
The Elk Herd in the Land of Eighteen Meadows, children’s book series about thewhimsical adventures of an herd of elk that reside at the Banff Springs Golf Course and Country Club. Three books completed, prospects for additional.
An Outlaw Meets God, a novel about a contemporary outlaw that dies accidentally and ends up in heaven with a God that trades for his illegal substances, and carouses with the late, great bandits of all time. (Completed).
Couples, Kids and Naught, a short story collection. (Completion March 2010).
The Duck Blind Chronicles, a novel in progress.
WRITER IN RESIDENCE
Synthaxis Theatre Company, Hollywood, CA, 1973-74. Adapted Jerome Rothenberg’s Technicians of the Sacred to the stage.
EDUCATION
19th Annual Rutgers-Camden Spring Writer’s Conference, March 2007,
New School for Social Research, graduate studies in cultural anthropology, 1983-84.
New York University Summer Writer’s Conference, July 1983.
San Francisco Art Institute, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, December 1980.