In this section I list my employment history for more details about what I did in each job please select the relevant link above.

I was 15 when I started my first real job with Corbet's Shop on Clandeboye Road, I delivered newspapers to houses all the way up the Clandeboye road through Rathgale to Baloo. I probably did this for a year when then I worked after school as a laboratory technician in the the school's chemistry laboratory. I made up standard solutions. I think at that time I saw education as being more difficult than work. I landed a summer job in Wellworths store in Bangor as a storeman, thisw involved bringing goods up from the store to the shop floor. In the summer of 1971 when I finished school I worked in the post room of the Central Services Agency. Then I applied for the position of technician in the Departmnent of Child Health, Queens University Belfast. 1974 and Ilanded a job in Bangor Daries as a process plant operative. In October 1974 Short Brothers and Harland employed me as a chemistry technician. I left that in June of 1975 to take up the position of Assistant Scientific Officer with the Department of Food and Agricultural Chemistry in Newforge Lane Belfast. In October 1978 I flew off to Riyad Saudi Arabia. To make my fortune and see some of the world. I worked in the Department of Pharmacognosy in the University of Saudi Arabia which was renamed the King Saud University. After four years I returned to Bangor. I'd applied for many jobs before taking up a position as a chef in the Royal Hotel. My application for employment in The National Institute for Higher Education (NIHE) as a Technician was successful in 1983. NIHE became The University of Limerick in 1992. Up until Thursday 2nd September 2010 I was working in the CES department. I have been redeployed as the Elearning Technology Advisor for the Faculty of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences.