My Employment

Employment and Self-Employment

I have also had various periods of unemployment, short and long, not fully recorded.

(1962-64): General Clerk, Associated Electrical Industries, Avonmore Trading Estate, West Kensington, London.

(1965-66?): 'Assisted' my father to run a village store in Hextable, Kent.
He had been made redundant about three times from his work as an engineer's patternmaker, and worked independently for a while until his business partner (Dicker) decided to emigrate, after which he took up shop-keeping.

(1967?-1973): Bonus Clerk, J. & E. Hall Ltd (later renamed Hall Thermotank), Dartford Kent.
At this time I also began to learn to do some printing using an Adana hand-press.

(1974-75): Editorial Assistant, Society of Chemical Industry, 14 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PS.
Preparing the magazine Chemistry & Industry for the printers.

(1975-76): Self-employed as letterpress printer, Walton-on-Naze, Essex.

(1976-79): Subeditor, Institution of Chemical Engineers, 165-171 Railway Terrace, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 3HQ.
Working on The Chemical Engineer monthly magazine.

(1979-80): Self-employed briefly as freelance. Some indexing.

(1980-82): Assistant Scientific Editor, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 4 John Street, London WC1N 2ET.
[Now Taylor & Francis Group plc, 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE.]
Work on the ‘International Journals’ of Electronics, Control, and Systems Science.

(1982-84): Publications Officer, Institution of Chemical Engineers,
165-171 Railway Terrace, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 3HQ.
Responsible for Transactions journal, including correspondence with authors, arranging refereeing of papers, copy editing, proof reading, liaison with printers, attendance at Editorial Board meetings. Also 'Special Publications' (A5 softcover books) and assisting in production of the 'Symposium Series' (conference proceedings).

(1985-90): Tried running a shop, Bohemia Road, Hastings, but gave up when the poll tax and business rate changes were introduced. At the same time I was also doing freelance editorial work, mainly proof reading, some copy editing and indexing.

(1986-2005): Freelance Editor. Proof reading and copy editing of technical books and journals for publishers, including:
Applied Science Publishers (?).
Blackies Academic & Professional, Wester Cleddens Road, Bishopbriggs, Glasgow G64 2NZ.
Butterworth–Heinemann, Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP.
Cadogan Books Ltd, 3rd Floor, 27–29 Berwick Street, London W1V 3RF.
Elsevier Science Ltd, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB.
Keyword Publishing Services, 40 Cambridge Road, Barking Essex IG11 8NW.
Oxford University Press, Science, Medical ∓ Journals Division, Walton Street, Oxford OX2 6DP.
Wells Medical, Chapel Place, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN1 1BP

1998 (3 August - 11 September): Technical Writer, B & A Engineering Co Ltd, Wylie Systems, Drury Lane, Hastings, TN34 1XS Revising technical manuals on-screen.

(1999-): Moved to Leicester in 1999, obtained a computer, took some lessons on HTML at Stayfree, and set up email.
Began to set up web-pages devoted to my hobby interests, including one for the Leicester Secular Society.