Currently serve as office manager for a small construction contracting firm that serves the Birmingham metro area,and specializes in medium- to large-scale home renovations and residential turnkey construction projects--with emphasis on superior client service and attention to detail. Duties include basic bookkeeping and data entry; answering calls for estimates, triaging estimate requests, and scheduling estimate appointments; tracking expenses and income; generating invoices and nagging the slow-to-pay; continually updating a plethora of spreadsheets; placing material orders and (occasionally) assisting in the coordination of deliveries of materials to jobsites; and being available to owner and project manager alike to take on special assignments on littler or no notice.

Everyone should have to work at a place like this at least once in his or her life; it really gives one a greater appreciation for (and, I would hope, compassion for) service industry workers and especially those who labor in the fast food business. After getting the "left foot of fellowship" from my last hotel job, I worried that I might be becoming "unemployable," so I decided to find an entry level job in fast food within walking distance from my house (jpaid for!) in case my car (not paid for!) got repo'd--the thought process being that it is always easier to land a job if you already have a job. Fortunately managed to get on with the pizza place two blocks from my residence. The job was physically challenging and mostly unfulfilling, but it gave me a wonderful opportunity to practice virtue (cf. Letter to the Hebrews 5:8). Duties included food preparation, cleaning and sanitizing equipment, and receiving product deliveries.

In addition to the duties described elsewhere in this résumé, I assisted in the transition of ownership as the property changed hands. Accepted promotion to Assistant General Manager but left the company unexpectedly after being sacked.

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Responsibilties included qualifying sales leads; making in-person sales calls and presentations; and enrolling employees.

Aspirant to the clerical state: Took time off from regular employment to discern a perceived call to a delayed vocation to the ministerial priesthood in the Roman Catholic church. In addition to obligatory studies in philosophy, Scripture, and magisterial teaching, duties included praying of the Liturgy of the Hours in community, serving at the altar for pontifical and nonpontifical liturgies, and various household chores, as well as serving as minister of music (song leader) within a diverse group of young and younger men from five foreign countries and the U.S.

Duties included: greeting and assisting in-house and arriving guests; troubleshooting guest check-ins and financials using OnQ or Opera property management software; collecting and posting payments; maintaining inventory of on-site snack shop; shepherding computer through end-of-day accounting regimen; and occasionally assisting in preparing the famous Hampton hot breakfast.

Responsibilities included: Preparing purchase orders; receiving, pricing, and displaying merchandise; taking merchandise orders; generating invoices; preparing orders for delivery or shipping; providing telephone support; and assisting in-store customers.

Served as an assistant to attorney A. Wilson Webb in consumer credit law. Duties included: interviewing clients and prospective clients; drafting and editing complaints; legal research; and data entry. Temporary position.

Duties included: Duplicating audio CDs and maintaining CD inventory; filling orders; receiving payments; preparing and making bank deposits; recording donations and expenditures in QuickBooks accounting software; preparing and mailing donation acknowledgment letters; and providing editorial assistance to my employer.

Provided copy editing and proofreading services to publishers and authors on a consultancy basis. Responsibilities included performing line editing of manuscripts; writing queries for authors; checking first and second proof; preparing frontmatter; selecting illustrations; writing captions; and drafting promotional copy. Clients included The University of Alabama Press (Tuscaloosa); University Press of Mississippi (Jackson); Menasha Ridge Press (Birmingham); and Crane Hill Press (Birmingham).

Served as an in-house editor for a publisher of academic monographs. Duties included: providing editorial guidance to authors as they prepared manuscripts for submission; performing editorial evaluations of submitted manuscripts; coordinating the work of freelance editors and proofreaders; selecting illustrations; writing captions; collating proof at each stage of production; drafting promotional copy; and maintaining cordial relationships with authors and editors via written and oral communications.