I bought a house at the corner of Primrose Lane and Easy Street and never looked back ...
At various times, Tom McMahon has been a magazine editor, a webmaster, a manager of a publications department, a user interface designer, a technical writer, a help desk expert, a technical instructor, a Six Sigma Black Belt, a manufacturing technician, a political campaign manager, a concert publicist for Harry Chapin, a political advance man for Walter Mondale, a nuclear reactor operator, an electronics technician, a janitor, a busboy, and a paid subject for a Mayo Clinic medical experiment.
He will not divulge which of these experiences were formative. He does state, however, that he finds writing in the third person to be rather odd.
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