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I am a father, engineer and member of the local community of Newcastle NSW Australia. I was born on March 1st 1986 in Zimbabwe where I was raised until I left for university in South Africa in 2006.
Now living in Australia I work full time as an engineer supporting the coal mines of New South Wales. I live on the shores of Lake MacQuarie and enjoy the opportunity this place provides for walking, swimming and exploring.
Writing is a new thing for me, or is being newly revived. I recently found a letter written by my 12 year old self to this future me.
I hope to write about my childhood and upbringing, and the way I view the world because of it. I hope that my writing will give my children an insight into what my life has been like and empower others with a new way of looking at the world.
We all see the world differently. An insight into what I see when I look at a pile of old and new Apple computers.
https://davidpetzer.blogspot.com/2020/03/a-family-photograph.html
A description of periodic garbage collections in Australia
https://davidpetzer.blogspot.com/2020/03/hard-rubbish.html
Documenting the time when the world woke up to the existence of COVID-19
https://davidpetzer.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-normies-are-waking-up.html
I made peoples holidays great. I started this gig at age 14 in the school holidays. I worked hard, did my best and was promoted. Helping people, going the extra mile and developing an attitude that no request was ever too much got me far here.
Company: Antelope Park Zimbabwe
I worked there from 1/2005 until 12/2005
Sold Ellies products in South Africa
Company: Ellies
I worked there from 1/2006 until 12/2007
Built things, treadmills, bikes, ellipticals and reconditioned them. The reconditioning work is almost the same as what you would do in a car mechanic / smash and repair place.
Company: Lifefitness Australia
I worked there from 1/2008 until 12/2011
I did a lot of projects. The best bit was to repair some circuit boards for some furnace cranes.
Company: ALCO Portland
I worked there from 12/2011 until 2/2012
Graduate experience job at West Wallsend Colliery and Ulan Surface operations. Usual project type work that graduates get upto. Finished with a project working for corporate engineering.
Company: Xstrata Coal
I worked there from 2/2012 until 2/2014
Following a take over by Glencore and being saved from a retrenchment I started working to help support new technology being used in the coal mines of New South Wales
Company: Glencore Coal Assets Australia
I worked there from 2/2014 until now