11/9/20

A Resume for the Covid & Outsourcing Era

 Looking around for work during this pandemic year has made things a little difficult. During the Obama administration corporate censorship took down every place I posted including one site where I earned $200 monthly writing essays. I had work until the end of February 2020 when I was forced to leave (though the state of Montana U.I. people said I voluntarily quit and never paid a dollar in benefits and saud apparently I would need to pay a penalty of about $1000 dollars to be eligible for an unemployment check.

Incidentally I will post a resume below in case anyone has actual work.

I was learning to be a dental lab technician for a year and a half and was getting very good at making models from impressions, cutting out dies and so forth. So I hoped to be able to find work in that area and continue learning how to reline dentures commercially. I had repainted homes and other building exteriors on and off for the better part of a half century yet am hoping to transition to something else.  Ladders are tough on older knees-especially without any Medicare part B. I suppose I would still have some accuracy with select military skills however I am too old for military work to qualify.

Riding a bike around the city I am in I checked out eight dental labs listed as working in the spring and discovered that all except two are out of business. The thing is dentists are Fedex-ing packages to labs in China that make products far cheaper than in the U.S.A. There may be just 3000 dental labs remaining in the U.S.A. and they are fading rather fast especially with internet digital sata transfering scans of patients directly to China. Many dentists have invested as partners in their own labs in China cutting out American workers. 


Resume’ of Garrison Gibson

garycgibson@gmail.com

Authorized to work in the US for any employer

 

Education

Bachelor's in history-philosophy

Excelsior College - Albany, NY

April 1989 to June 1991

 

Associate of Arts

University of Alaska-Juneau

 

Two years graduate theology studies

North American Reformed Theology Seminary

 

Western Business College- Portland Ore. 1980-81

Computer programming and systems analysis

 

Work Experience

Dental lab technician

Pioneer Dental Studio - Helena Montana

April 2018 to February 2020

Making dental models from impressions, duplicating models, cutting out and rough sanding dies

Decades of roll and brush exterior painting

Six months security Guard

Building painter

June 1974 to August 2020

Self-employed journeyman building painter- mostly exteriors. Very good trim work

 Author of 40 books (Garrison C. Gibson) (science fiction, poetry, philosophy, contemporary history) online bookstores

 Military Service

U.S. Army Guard and Reserve June 1982 to 1990 trained as combat engineer, chemical specialist, indirect fire infantry, carpentry masonry

 Misc. Skills MSWord, Desktop publishing

 

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