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Tim's work combines: Education, Non-Profit Organizations, and Teaching / Mentoring
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Day In The Life
Skills &
Education
Here's the path I took:
High School
Bachelor's Degree
Humboldt State University
Graduate Degree
English Language and Literature, General
Humboldt State University
Here's the path I recommend for someone who wants to be a Chief Executives:
High School
Bachelor's Degree: Birthing and Parenting Knowledge and Skills
Graduate Degree: Educational Leadership and Administration, General
Doctorate: Educational Leadership and Administration, General
Certification: Secondary Education and Teaching
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Life & Career Milestones
I've taken a lot of twists and turns
1.
My dream was to teach High School English and Coach baseball.
2.
I was asked to move into Administration that required a return to school for a Masters.
3.
I was recruited as a Consultant for the CA State Dept. of Education exposing me to a variety of jobs.
4.
Took job has a high school administrator and moved up the ladder. Selected principal of new School.
5.
Building delays ended in my taking a Health Care Administration Position, traveling the US to train.
6.
Spent many years running Mental Health Facilities and working with schools/parents of high risk kids.
7.
Wrote a book on Parenting, traveled the country, worked in Professional Baseball and Football.
8.
Worked my way back to Education - have come full circle back to my original passion.
Defining Moments
How I responded to discouragement
THE NOISE
Messages from Society in general:
Don't take the risk! You have a career with guaranteed pay and retirement, why would you take a chance of losing all that and go into business. Why do you want to take a chance starting an outpatient treatment program? It has not been done before.
How I responded:
It starts with a belief in your self and in your dream, and requires gathering solid research information, exceptional planning, proper financing and finding others who share your dream. To make it all come true, requires a willingness to work harder and longer than most, do jobs and tasks from taking out the garbage, doing the copying and stapling to high level meetings with top executives, sometimes all in one day. To make it work requires a complete love of the work and belief in the mission.
Experiences and challenges that shaped me
I had to pay my way through college working several jobs to pay for tuition and books while playing college baseball.
Taking the risk of leaving education, put me in the business world where tenure does not protect you. Over my business career, I was laid off by companies with financial problems three times and left one company because my pay checks bounced.
My parents were products of the depression and world war II. Both had only high school educations and had no real academic backgrounds. Fortunately, I had a solid high school college prep background that helped me succeed in College.