A lifetime resume in chronological order
1957-8: Paperboy delivering the Des Moines Register.
1958-9: Paperboy delivering the Daily Gate City.
1960-63: Dairy hand. Filling milk bottles, cleaning vats, and washing milk cans at The Sunbeam Dairy.
1963-65: Gas station attendant.
1966: Janitor and parts man for Chevrolet dealership. Apprentice machinist. Factory Worker in black rubber injection molding plant.
1967: Runner for brokerage firm on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade. Line freight driver for American Airlines, O’Hare International Airport.
1967-71: Conscription in the United States Navy. Boot camp in San Diego, airplane line mechanic and major overhaul fabricator China Lake, Ca. Also a bar tender at the Acey/Ducey club and the officer’s club. Launch crew member aboard the U.S.S. Independence.
1971: Sale clerk for John Deere consumer products dealer prior to starting art school.
1971-72: Installer for Place/Allrich Galleries, San Francisco, Ca. Undergraduate student at The San Francisco Art Institute.
1973: Silicon crystal grower for National Semi-Conductor, Mountain View, Ca.
1973-74: Business manager for OMI of Los Angeles. Playwright in Residence and actor for Synthaxis Theatre Company, Hollywood, Ca.
1975: Owner of grounds maintenance company, then sold and became owner/operator of an over-the-road tractor trailer leased to North American Van Lines.
1975-76: Apartment owner/landlord. Used car salesman.
1977-78: Truck driver for Vermillion Bros. hauling perishables in the Chicago to California funnel.
1978-79: Vice-president Sales for Autoworld, Inc.
1979-80: Truck driver Vermillion Bros. during school breaks, and returned to art school. Worked as sales clerk in T-shirt store on fisherman’s Wharf while in school. Undergraduate student at The San Francisco Art Institute.
1981-82: New and used car salesman for Sill Motors, Inc. a multi-line GM dealership.
1982-3: Truck driver for Heartland Express.
1983-85: Telemarketing sales rep for Clement Communications.
1985-86: Account Manager for Val-Pak of the Delaware Valley.
1986-1995: Corporate sales & marketing manager for Transport International Pool, Inc., a GE Capital Co.
1996 to 2005: Salesman and Marketer for Hale Trailer Brake & Wheel, Inc..
2002: Creation of michaelfeilarts.com
2008 to 2009: Branch Manager for National Semi Trailer Corporation.
2006-2009: Business Broker for The Sunbelt Network of Pennsylvania, Inc.
2010: U.S. Census Bureau, Enumerator for Census2010.
2009-2016: Client Counsel for Stolzfus RV.
2020: U.S. Census Bureau, Regional Supervisor for Census2020.
1958-9: Paperboy delivering the Daily Gate City.
1960-63: Dairy hand. Filling milk bottles, cleaning vats, and washing milk cans at The Sunbeam Dairy.
1963-65: Gas station attendant.
1966: Janitor and parts man for Chevrolet dealership. Apprentice machinist. Factory Worker in black rubber injection molding plant.
1967: Runner for brokerage firm on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade. Line freight driver for American Airlines, O’Hare International Airport.
1967-71: Conscription in the United States Navy. Boot camp in San Diego, airplane line mechanic and major overhaul fabricator China Lake, Ca. Also a bar tender at the Acey/Ducey club and the officer’s club. Launch crew member aboard the U.S.S. Independence.
1971: Sale clerk for John Deere consumer products dealer prior to starting art school.
1971-72: Installer for Place/Allrich Galleries, San Francisco, Ca. Undergraduate student at The San Francisco Art Institute.
1973: Silicon crystal grower for National Semi-Conductor, Mountain View, Ca.
1973-74: Business manager for OMI of Los Angeles. Playwright in Residence and actor for Synthaxis Theatre Company, Hollywood, Ca.
1975: Owner of grounds maintenance company, then sold and became owner/operator of an over-the-road tractor trailer leased to North American Van Lines.
1975-76: Apartment owner/landlord. Used car salesman.
1977-78: Truck driver for Vermillion Bros. hauling perishables in the Chicago to California funnel.
1978-79: Vice-president Sales for Autoworld, Inc.
1979-80: Truck driver Vermillion Bros. during school breaks, and returned to art school. Worked as sales clerk in T-shirt store on fisherman’s Wharf while in school. Undergraduate student at The San Francisco Art Institute.
1981-82: New and used car salesman for Sill Motors, Inc. a multi-line GM dealership.
1982-3: Truck driver for Heartland Express.
1983-85: Telemarketing sales rep for Clement Communications.
1985-86: Account Manager for Val-Pak of the Delaware Valley.
1986-1995: Corporate sales & marketing manager for Transport International Pool, Inc., a GE Capital Co.
1996 to 2005: Salesman and Marketer for Hale Trailer Brake & Wheel, Inc..
2002: Creation of michaelfeilarts.com
2008 to 2009: Branch Manager for National Semi Trailer Corporation.
2006-2009: Business Broker for The Sunbelt Network of Pennsylvania, Inc.
2010: U.S. Census Bureau, Enumerator for Census2010.
2009-2016: Client Counsel for Stolzfus RV.
2020: U.S. Census Bureau, Regional Supervisor for Census2020.
Publishing Credits
Articles:
Transport Topics, “How to Buy A Used Trailer”, June 10, 1991.
Impact, “Sprucing for Spring”, “Avoiding the Water Hazard”, Spring 1991.
Philadelphia Small Business Journal, “Sales Production Points System to Create Sales”, June 1988, “Telephone Skills That Close Sales”, August 1988.
Trailer Tracks (TIP Corporate Newsletter), “The Long Term Lease/Lease Purchase Conversion”, “Small Deals Reap Big Profits”, “Record Setting Sales Events...”.
Poetry:
King River Press, folk ku, May 2023, “whip down the asphalt…”
Haiku Crush, Best Haiku of 2022 international anthology, "wrinkles of age…".
@ruralitalics, February 14, 2022, “trees growing over…”,
March 30, 2022, “fence coming apart…”.
Sakura Haiku Challenge, Spring 2022, "drinking continues...",
"Scott Circle vibrant...".
tinywords, August 3, 2022, "fishing trawlers reflect..."
World Haiku Journal, Winter 2021/22 honorable mention, “tones slowly change…”
Asahi Haikuist Network, October 2021, "empty porch swing waits..."
Chrysanthemum, Spring 2021, “packaged biscotti..."
The Bloo Outlier, December 2020, "golden leaves blowing..."
The Poetry Pea Journal, Autumn 2020, "tears turning to rain...
poetry pea podcasts and online, December, November, August (2), June 2020, five haiku and senryu.
failed haiku, Issue 51, March 2020 "self-published books..."
failed haiku, Issue 41, May 2019, "bumper sticker says".
Wales Haiku Journal, Summer 2019, "killing a spider..."
Wales Haiku Journal, Autumn 2018, "winter rain driving".
The Cicadas Cry, Summer 2019, "three days of down pours..."
Frogpond, Spring 2018, "field of dreams...".
Haiku Journal, issue 57, March 2018, “starlight gazing…”.
The Middlewesterner, Saturday’s Poem, “Woodside Diner”, 2001.
Holland American Lines- M. S. Ryndam, Daily Program, a haiku, “Glacier”, July 7, 1996.
The Advocate, “Passing Forty”, “Lunch Special”, August 1989.
Brussels Sprout, “You Hold Me In”, September 1989.
Camping In A Middle Class Pasture selected poems 1971-1999, 108 pps. Authors House, 2003.
MANUSCRIPTS AVAILABLE
Poetry:
Growing Up Midwestern. (In progress).
Fiction:
The Elk Herd in the Land of Eighteen Meadows, children’s book series about thewhimsical adventures of an herd of elk that reside at the Banff Springs Golf Course and Country Club. Three books completed, prospects for additional.
An Outlaw Meets God, a novel about a contemporary outlaw that dies accidentally and ends up in heaven with a God that trades for his illegal substances, and carouses with the late, great bandits of all time. (Completed).
Couples, Families, Friends and Naught, a short story collection. (Completed)
The Duck Blind Chronicles, a novel in progress.
Canoe Club, a novel in progress.
Drawings:
Brooklyn Art Library, Sketchbook Project Volume 17, February 2021.
WRITER IN RESIDENCE
Synthaxis Theatre Company, Hollywood, CA, 1973-74. Adapted Jerome Rothenberg’s Technicians of the Sacred to the stage.
EDUCATION
19th Annual Rutgers-Camden Spring Writer’s Conference, March 2007,
New School for Social Research, graduate studies in cultural anthropology, 1983-84.
New York University Summer Writer’s Conference, July 1983.
San Francisco Art Institute, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, December 1980.
Transport Topics, “How to Buy A Used Trailer”, June 10, 1991.
Impact, “Sprucing for Spring”, “Avoiding the Water Hazard”, Spring 1991.
Philadelphia Small Business Journal, “Sales Production Points System to Create Sales”, June 1988, “Telephone Skills That Close Sales”, August 1988.
Trailer Tracks (TIP Corporate Newsletter), “The Long Term Lease/Lease Purchase Conversion”, “Small Deals Reap Big Profits”, “Record Setting Sales Events...”.
Poetry:
King River Press, folk ku, May 2023, “whip down the asphalt…”
Haiku Crush, Best Haiku of 2022 international anthology, "wrinkles of age…".
@ruralitalics, February 14, 2022, “trees growing over…”,
March 30, 2022, “fence coming apart…”.
Sakura Haiku Challenge, Spring 2022, "drinking continues...",
"Scott Circle vibrant...".
tinywords, August 3, 2022, "fishing trawlers reflect..."
World Haiku Journal, Winter 2021/22 honorable mention, “tones slowly change…”
Asahi Haikuist Network, October 2021, "empty porch swing waits..."
Chrysanthemum, Spring 2021, “packaged biscotti..."
The Bloo Outlier, December 2020, "golden leaves blowing..."
The Poetry Pea Journal, Autumn 2020, "tears turning to rain...
poetry pea podcasts and online, December, November, August (2), June 2020, five haiku and senryu.
failed haiku, Issue 51, March 2020 "self-published books..."
failed haiku, Issue 41, May 2019, "bumper sticker says".
Wales Haiku Journal, Summer 2019, "killing a spider..."
Wales Haiku Journal, Autumn 2018, "winter rain driving".
The Cicadas Cry, Summer 2019, "three days of down pours..."
Frogpond, Spring 2018, "field of dreams...".
Haiku Journal, issue 57, March 2018, “starlight gazing…”.
The Middlewesterner, Saturday’s Poem, “Woodside Diner”, 2001.
Holland American Lines- M. S. Ryndam, Daily Program, a haiku, “Glacier”, July 7, 1996.
The Advocate, “Passing Forty”, “Lunch Special”, August 1989.
Brussels Sprout, “You Hold Me In”, September 1989.
Camping In A Middle Class Pasture selected poems 1971-1999, 108 pps. Authors House, 2003.
MANUSCRIPTS AVAILABLE
Poetry:
Growing Up Midwestern. (In progress).
Fiction:
The Elk Herd in the Land of Eighteen Meadows, children’s book series about thewhimsical adventures of an herd of elk that reside at the Banff Springs Golf Course and Country Club. Three books completed, prospects for additional.
An Outlaw Meets God, a novel about a contemporary outlaw that dies accidentally and ends up in heaven with a God that trades for his illegal substances, and carouses with the late, great bandits of all time. (Completed).
Couples, Families, Friends and Naught, a short story collection. (Completed)
The Duck Blind Chronicles, a novel in progress.
Canoe Club, a novel in progress.
Drawings:
Brooklyn Art Library, Sketchbook Project Volume 17, February 2021.
WRITER IN RESIDENCE
Synthaxis Theatre Company, Hollywood, CA, 1973-74. Adapted Jerome Rothenberg’s Technicians of the Sacred to the stage.
EDUCATION
19th Annual Rutgers-Camden Spring Writer’s Conference, March 2007,
New School for Social Research, graduate studies in cultural anthropology, 1983-84.
New York University Summer Writer’s Conference, July 1983.
San Francisco Art Institute, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, December 1980.