The next decade....what's in store?

To un-confuse Campfyah....

Variety is the spice of life, so I try and do as many things as I can do. Well, this is really in the last 4 or so years. Here's how it went......

1. Did a Hotel Management degree a loooooong time ago. Worked at a hotel in Jamaica for 8 years, then worked at this same hotel I am writing from now for 4 years.
2. After that, left in order to do a Masters in Tourism and Hospitality Education, because I felt that I wanted to concentrate on people development. Spent nearly 2 years in England because I started another Post Graduate degree.
3. Now it was while I was in England doing my second degree that I started the cricket writing. My very first piece for the website was a call to rally around the West Indies team when they were playing Australia in Port of Spain in 2003.
4. When I got home in May 2003, the editor of the website (bless him!) asked me if I would do some off-the-field cricket stuff when the Aussies came to Jamaica. Sure! So did that.
5. I should have gone to start my PhD at Virginia Tech in August 2003, but a Grenadian person I know said a hotelier was looking for a trainer. So I deferred my PhD, and took that contract which lasted three months. Worked between Trinidad and Grenada (not at this hotel).
6. Did some odd jobs in the first part of 2004, and then came to this hotel to conduct some training, then was to return the week of Ivan....well....you know what happened. Was fortunate to get a contract in St Kitts/Nevis for two months.

Now in and between all of that "proper job", I still do cricket stuff. The mandate given to me by the editor in 2003 was to do profiles and Q&As with the players. The public only knows about what a player does on the field, but doesn't really get to know them. The cricket stuff is very voluntary, however out of that I have been fortunate to get some paying pieces.

Then I also started writing some hospitality pieces for The Jamaica Gleaner.

Ok, I think that should un-confuse you?

Time to go home. I wore high heel shoes today for the whole day....and they were new shoes. You can imagine how the yamfeet are feeeling!

Posted by yamfoot at December 15, 2005 08:40 PM