Schooling

1970 aged 10 I fell from my bike and spent almost 4 years in hospital, owing to breathing and mobility issues I needed to stay close to my ward and had no traditional schooling but I was a young boy surrounded by adults, I was reading doctors books, in terms of reading and understanding the meaning tell somebody of what i was reading I was in fact way advanced for my age. After 4 years without schooling I returned to high school to a class with children my own age

Work

I sat school certificate at age 16 after my last exam I started work at Cutler Hammer as a trainee industrial wireman, this work involved wiring computer mainframes which were the size of a family fridge and had up to 8000 connections which was accomplished by wire wrapping a small copper wire, we had a wire wrapping gun for this job. For my age this was a complex job.
Duration 3.5 years

Rent a Set
My job here involved servicing and delivering Television and stereo rental equipment also running discos and renting disco equipment jukeboxes portable sound systems. In this job I was servicing a large range of electrical equipment, as well as installing and running sound systems for private events
Duration 3.5 years

Wizard Coin
My job here was working with a small group of innovative people who were building the first amusement machines in New Zealand. This is when the space invader machine was introduced, we made these machines in New Zealand from the ground up while most my age were playing these games I was making them in a manufacturing role which included overseeing outworking companies such as Abilities Auckland, I was also involved in building the electronic PCB required to run the TV tube used in these machines  and servicing them on site.

I was one of the troops working long hours and having a lot of responsibility, I learnt a lot of my business skills while working here
Duration 3 years

Tisco
My job here was mostly repair of televisions videos and medical alert systems. I left this job because the union had called a strike which when on for 6 weeks
Duration 1.5 years

Plessey Business Systems

My job here involved serving of dictation machines, pocket beepers and the first fax machines to enter New Zealand. I was young and business orientated I made big changes happen in this company and became friends with the general manager
Duration 3.5 years

In the mid 1980s I decided I needed to be my own boss, so for the last 30 years I have had many successful businesses I featured on the TVNZ program Success in the late 1980s

I owned and ran Auckland Telephone services, repairing telephones after the telecommunications industry had been deregulated. I continue to this day by selling and servicing antique phones online from my website antiquephones.co.nz

This telephone repair business started in the late 1980s at the time the internet was new and traditional advertising was expensive.

So I brought a computer and learnt how to make a website, because the internet was so new

I was able to quickly make my website number 1 on google for the search term "telephone repairs"
I abandoned traditional expensive advertising and put everything online myself saving many thousands of dollars per year every year until I semi-retired 3 years ago.

While continuing with my repair work I have made or SEO optimised over 100 websites

I am now set up professionally as a hosting reseller and independent website designer and consultant

I am still semi-retired but also still learning every day After 30 odd years of practice I am really good at this website design work I now do. I really do love to work and enjoy learning how to do new things with online marketing I am there I am very up to date.

Now operating under the trading name Website Design Whangarei. On the below website under portfolio you can find 20 or more websites that I have made
https://websitedesignwhangarei.co.nz/

I also have a Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/Googleexpertsconz-159767440716866/

Glen McMillan