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This story is the memoir of my very brief teaching career, a sad/happy experience. I began teaching at an age when most people have retired; but I was not ready to hang it up quite yet. Nevertheless, my teaching career did come to an end pretty abruptly; so maybe 66 years of age was a little bit old to start teaching middle school. At this point, you are probably nodding your heads and thinking it was the kids. But if that's your thought, you couldn't be further off the mark. It wasn't the kids at all, or even the teaching. Rather, it was all the other circumstances that an old guy was just not prepared for, such as having to explain to parents why their child was moved to a brand new teacher two weeks into the term; or not even having a classroom of my own. But, with all the problems, I have no regrets for having given it a try; and I would not trade the experience for anything. Philip M. FishmanBirmingham AlabamaEducationBachelor of Arts Chemistry 1961Indiana University Bloomington IndianaGraduate studies Business Administration 1973University of South CarolinaGraduate studies Education 2006University of Alabama BirminghamAwardsBenjamin Bosse Scholarship 1957State (Indiana) Scholarship 1957Residence Scholarship 1957- 1960MilitaryFirst LieutenantExecutive Officer 18th Technical Intelligence DetachmentU.S. Army Chemical Corps 1961- 1963ExperienceCalgon 1964- 1967Technical Service Engineer- Industrial water treatmentKaiser Agricultural Chemicals 1968- 1971Sales industrial applicationsEngelhard 1971- 1974Sales and distributor manager industrial mineralsKennesaw Wilcox 1974Sales manager industrial chemicalsSynergistic , Inc 1974- 1978President Manufacturer's representative industrialchemicalsOmya 1978- 2001Southeast Regional Sales ManagerFiller Technologies 2001-2004ConsultantHoover (Alabama) City Schools and Shelby County Schools 2005-2008Substitute teacher and Science teacherPublished booksTeacher's Gotta Dance 2010A Really Inconvenient Truth- The Case Against the Theory of Anthropogenic Global Warming 2013Secession- A Republic Reborn 2017Aren't the Emperor's New Clothes Grand 2018Einfach sagenhaft, des Kaisers neue Kleider 2019Professional AssociationsAmerican Coatings Association 1971-1980Society of Plastic Engineers 1980-2001