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CAREER OBJECTIVE: part-time work in retail, or security sectors, such as bartending, handling food, or selling productsHIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS OR PROFESSIONAL PROFILE- prepared food and handed out samples during product demonstrations at supermarkets for couple of years- worked in bar setting doing various tasks such as mixing drinks, bar set up/take down/cleanup- worked 40 years in most aspects of journalism - business, sports, politics, religion, lifestyles, arts, travel, gardening - meeting and interviewing hundreds of people for features and news stories- sold shoes at the retail level for about two years- travelled around six continents in my work, visiting just about every wine/liquor producing country, just about every coffee bean producing country including Ethiopia, home to the coffee tree, and trying their products, and just about every tea producing country including visiting a tea plantation in Sri LankaWORK EXPERIENCE/EMPLOYMENT HISTORY- more than two years doing product demonstrations for InStore Focus at supermarkets around Toronto- several months doing stamp cataloguing for auction house R. Maresch and Son in Toronto- bartending over the course of a month at Bartending School of Ontario in Toronto- reporter/editor/writer at The Canadian Press in Toronto and South African Press Association in Johannesburg 1971-2009- clerked for two years in a shoe store the Toronto area- worked three months as security officer at General Motors in OshawaAVAILABILITY: can start right away, and work any and all shiftsLANGUAGES: English, dash of FrenchEDUCATION AND TRAINING- Bartending School of Ontario certificate No. 81960- Smart Serve certificate No. e09060900081- Wine Council of Ontario Certificate of Merit - St. John Ambulance Standard First Aid With CPR Level A certificate- completed course leading to Toronto Public Health's Food Handler certificate- earned Master of Arts degree at Carleton University in Ottawa

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