Joe Clark:
CLASS OF 1975
Suncoast High SchoolClass of 1975
Riviera beach, FL
Murphy High SchoolClass of 1975
Mobile, AL
Davidson High SchoolClass of 1975
Mobile, AL
Dickson Elementary SchoolClass of 1969
Mobile, AL
Lillian Ruediger Elementary SchoolClass of 1969
Tallahassee, FL
Joe's Story
Life
Email jsclarkfl at gmail or just visit jsclark.net.
School
I think "brainy, goofy, and awkward" describes a lot of my times in school -- after puberty, I didn't really get comfy until 11th or 12th grade. I've got plenty of memories of dullness and terror, but mostly wonderful times and wonderful people - many of whom I've reconnected with here. Life is big!
College
Year 1: ROTC, engineering and moderate grades
Year 2: Partying and failing
[worked a year after that]
Years 3-4: Comm major, 3.96 GPA, dean's list
Grad school in Comm at USF - some of the best times in my life.
Grad school at Temple U - Bleak!
Grad school in English at FSU - rewarding and fun!
Grad school again at age 50+ - bizarrely cool!
- In summer 2006 I decided to return to school and work on a PhD in Communication. Hope to finish before retirement!
Workplace
Except for a three-year gap in which I worked at FL Dept of Corrections (oh, ask me about THAT!), I've been at FSU since 1988, in a variety of positions. I'm pleased at how my Communication degree seems to be more and more relevant to daily tasks, esp. in the web world. I've had a LOT of different jobs in the past: security guard, busboy, pizza driver, phone solicitor, programmer, quality control inspector.......Expand for more
Military
Technically, it's military: I was awarded a 4-year scholarship by the USN and gave it a try for a year as an ROTC midshipman at UF in 1975-76. I did NOT like it much, but leaving was also due to my career/academic interests drifting over to liberal arts and social science, rather than engineering.
Life in general
I put my more topical rants on a blog at jsclark dot net. Politically you could call me liberal except that liberals aren't socialist enough. Too many Americans are smugly self-entitled while knowing Jack about the world, history, economics, etc. The media help us stay that way, since they're all owned by the interests who prefer the current arrangement, whereby the rich keep getting richer and sending everyone else off to Iraq or Walmart. Hurry, post-capitalism!
I'm interested in the pursuit of the infinite (most definitely not through the route often called Christianity, although it bears almost no connection whatsoever to Jesus's teachings). Generally I find some of the Buddhist teachings to be of more specific guidance than any of the muddled theology one finds elsewhere. (I say "pursuit" when I know full well that it retreats from that.)
More to come when I feel motivated. I can't let both of my readers down!
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