The first book I created was at CAIS in Darwin. (Part of Northern Territory University.)
I created a book for bridging mathematics. This was for a course to teach mathematics to people who wanted to go into university computer studies, but had not doen enough of senior maths, ie years 11 and 12.
The second book was "Tips and Hints for the Internet".
A small booklet to be used as a guide for helping people use the Internet.
Next was "Perception Thinking".
This is a book on the way people think and how we can improve our thinking.
Then we have a book on religion. To be exact, it is an analysis of the human soul from a scientific viewpoint.
I still need a better name for it, rather than "The Human Soul, from a scientific viewpoint."
I have followed the Perception Thinking book with a second volume, "Consequences of PT".
I have also started a second volume of teh religion book too, but have not done much on it so far.
I decided to start a business with games. This was started with others, unfortunately, they dropped out, leaving me with games but no selling mechanism.
Oritac.
Oritac is a two person game. It is a board game to teach students to look ahead and to consider what moves to do.
Basically, they have to think.
Snap-Jack.
This is a card game. It can be played by up to 5 people.
I have tried both games with many people with great success.
I have also written a computer version of Oritac, using only two of the possible four boards.
Honesty has always been very important to me, to the extent that I have refused jobs if the person offering the position was not being honest.
University of Qld, Maths Department. The Maths Department offered me a position lecturing there. However, they were not willing/able to pay the full wages for a half-time lecturer, as they wanted to employ me.
Consequently, they offered me Aus$10,000 for the job of lecturing there. I decided to accept, but then the trouble started. To employ me they had to put me on their books as in a certain position. They asked if I would accept the position of tutor and do the job of lecturer. The secretary explained that they could not employ me as a lecturer because I had not been in that position before.
This was blatantly wrong. They don't need a person to have been a lecturer before they can employ him as a lecturer, but also, I had worked in Darwin as a lecturer.
I did try to argue this with the secretary. However, when she asked what my salary was in 1990 as a lecturer, she claimed that it was too low to be a lecturer. I had to have been a tutor. This was wrong. Salaries had increased over the years since I had worked in Darwin. Even with arguing with her, she said that I was wrong, that I was not telling the truth.
I sent a letter refusing the position the next day.
Some time afterwards, I met the Head of the Department. He apologised for the event and said that it was not meant to be that way.
Newcollege, Sunnybank. I started working for Joe Park who owns and operates a "outside of school hours" school at Sunnybank. He asked me to work for the week of the holidays, teaching the English subject to grade 4/5. However, he said that he could only pay $20 per hour as there were only two students. I was not happy with such a low wage.
I eventually agreed. He would get $200 from each student, so he would only get $400 in total. We agreed that he would pay me $24 per hour, or $360 for the week. This allowed him a bit extra to pay things like the GST and other overheads, but not to really make any profit. However, it would improve the reputation of his school.
Less than two days later, on the Monday morning, the students arrive, all four of them. I asked Park about how much he was going to pay me, and he reconfirmed that he would pay the $24 as was ageed.
I finished that week and refused to work for him again.