RE: [OT] English - was Writing books

["Dr John Tankard" <john@xxxxxxx>]

> >Writing a book would be one in the eye for my old English teacher.
I 
> >almost failed CSE English but scraped by with a Grade 4. He 
> failed to 
> >point out to me that the books on the "suggested
reading" list were 
> >actually COMPULSORY.
> 
> I had the same problem... I fundamentally disagreed with the notion
> that just because something was old and a 'classic', it was 
> automatically good and worth reading.
> 
> Eventually I gave up on English Lit. to concentrate on the other 
> subjects. Last year, I completed a 50,000 word User Guide for some
> software. Similar to Keith, technical books, magazines and other 
> 'literature' have helped me with this and a number of magazine 
> articles I've had published.
> 

I always wanted to be a Enginer, and rather than do A levels I dropped
out of school with a good collection of O's to go to Technical Collage
(I failed E Lit and Lang, actually I have retaken Lang 5 times and
failed every time even at the age of 22 ! Dyslexia rules KO), Back to
the story, I messed around at collage and I can remember my Mechanics
tutor (Also cource tutor) saying in my last year 

"Tankard have you considered a manual job, working on a building site
or
something ?" he was serious.

That was the turning point, I got stuck in, when I left there I
continued with enginering until post grad when I switched to
mechatronics and ended up with a M Phil and PhD. 

I went back to see him with my PhD, he had retired, so I found where he
lived and......


He could not remember me, he thought I was trying to sell him cleaning
products !

John




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