Mark Kamen:  

God has been most gracious to me. It has been a pleasure to be married to the same supportive lady for 40 years. While my employment history can be found on my LinkedIn page, it excludes having been on the Bangor Fire Department for 10 years (1978 – 1988) and managing Lowry and Associates, a personal injury law firm, when it first opened in Bangor. As a firefighter, on a couple of occasions through the use of cpr, I (with God’s intervention) was able to revive people who had died. One was an infant, who had gotten his neck caught between the slates in his crib, had stopped breathing, was blue and had no pulse when we arrived at the scene. The job may not have paid much, but it provided great satisfaction by being able to save lives, assist people with medical emergencies and limit property fire damage. Since 1990, I have been a labor / employee relations consultant. My consulting assignments have allowed me to do some traveling – for about two years, I flew to Florida every Monday morning and back to Portland, ME every Friday night to spend the weekend with my wife (such travel is not quite as exotic as it may seem though). Barely escaping Bangor High School, I went on to earn both a B.S in Education and an M.A. in Industrial and Labor Relations. Offered a graduate assistantship at Indiana University of Pa., my work included the re-employment efforts for over 10,000 laid off coal miners. Representing IUP, I worked on then Governor Casey’s rapid re-employment team establishing job fairs, writing resumes and establishing continuity of policies impacting unemployed workers across the counties in PA. Also, while at IUP, I was instrumental in organizing the nurses at Indiana Hospital where my wife worked. We have been fortunate to live near the ocean in some great areas: Ferry Beach in Saco, Bar Harbor, Norfolk, VA and now in East Boothbay, ME. It is great to be able to hear the fog horn and the lobster boats as they start up in the morning to head out. Though I e...Expand for more