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Title: Life in the Bumpy Lane
Author : Geoff Clynes
Release Date : January 11, 2012
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs,Books,Nonfiction,Family & Relationships,
Pages : * pages
Size : 604 KB

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This memoir plots the waning influence of a strict religious upbringing on a life littered with major changes in direction. The story follows one person’s growth from naïve and amoral childhood through a devout Catholic teenage to survival self-employed in economic hard times.Geoff is a war baby (born 1940, Benalla, VIC) whose mother died in childbirth, and that tragedy badly damaged his father’s career in the police force. Dad married again and Geoff was raised in a devout Catholic family, getting an education in inner suburban Melbourne convents and Christian Brothers’ schools. Intending the priesthood he entered a seminary. However in the first year of that spiritual and meditative life, he realized how he had been sexually abused as an altar boy almost a decade earlier. Mistaking his normal sexuality for deviance, he decided to change careers but the timing was a problem. Dad was again in trouble with his police superiors, and his stepmother urged him to defer departure for another three years, to avoid his father being blamed. Qualifying at night in electronics and later in business administration, his work has been mainly with small and new business ventures. That focus often led to sales and marketing development which in turn involved dealing with more than his share of colourful people and unconventional situations.This life is different because:•Unsettled upbringing and schooling left him with no peer group, and rudimentary interpersonal skills•Perseverance, high energy and strong positive attitude leave him prone to flogging a dead horse•Comfort with risk, change and lifelong learning often impress others as insensitivity and poor team spirit•Woeful timing has dogged several big decisions in his life: like studying electronics just as transistors arrived, moving interstate later in that course, changing jobs and houses unwisely, starting his own business as a recession kicked in.He enjoyed projects where there is no “one best way”, where success is not guaranteed and flexibility is needed. Such situations are error-prone; the team leader on the spot has to avoid fatal errors, act quickly to grasp opportunities and correct undesirable trends. Geoff has managed often with enough rope to hang himself; he likes to learn from mistakes and frequently draws attention in the text to his personal “learning experiences”.