U. S. ARMY Personnel School as draftee, 1971. Recommended for Officers Candidate School by office personnel, Bldg. 6569 and by the Company Commander, Capt. R. G.

Study of Kentucky State Insurance Regulations through Lincoln Income Life Insurance Co., leading to Life, Health and Casualty Licenses 1973.

Jefferson Community College. Dean's List Student all terms. 1974-75. Accounting, Calculus, Economics, Business, Creative Writing, Drafting, History, Business Law .

University of Louisville - 1976-80 = Bachelor of Science in Economics 1999; and a wide variety of related and unrelated topics. 180 hrs in a 120 hr major.

1991-1997 = computer application and construction; reading law and writing; chorus; WWW mass communication & desktop publishing; digital video; computer building; 1991-1997 = computer application and construction; ; reading law and writing; chorus; WWW mass communication & desktop publishing;

• 1) thesis type-paper written and published on History and Genealogy . Desktop Published as a digital volume set, and available in the better Genealogy Libraries. Copyrights received. © 1985, 1986 and 1991, 1996, 1997. Written 1981-1985.

• 2) A huge digital compilation of the history of a small historically significant pre-Revolutionary War village (the first and original (CD Rom, word searchable for great reference , Macintosh and Windows. The electronic "book" on Dumfries VA.). Rhedges9 editor only. No original commentary is included to dilute the old facts. 1986-1991. Copyrights © 1996 & Dec 1997 CD.

• 3) A biography/mystery -Strollin' Pettifoggers Copyrights dated March © 1996 & June © 1997.

• 4) genetics and evolution of the human primate .

Vidiography and graphics study and application.

STANDARD OIL CO. Driveway salesman/customer service - 1970 - spring 1973

LINCOLN INCOME LIFE INSURANCE. bookkeeping, sales and service. 1973

• 1) Financial Management : purchasing, marketing, accounting | recordkeeping | long term planning |
• 2) mapping, platting, development planning, photographing, documenting, researching the early records and saving the old family farm.
• 3) new home construction : forming, concrete pours, framing, sheathing, roofing, insulating, electrician's work;
• 4) antique and agricultural building repair, renovation and replacement;
• 5) agricultural crop planning, production and drying, storing and hauling ;
• 6) Silvaculture: tree propagation with emphasis on walnut. Planting, pruning, culling, harvesting,(30,000 b.f.sawed), landscaping , sawing, and marketing. Pioneer of the use of foam insulation in living tree repair.
• 7) land clearing and roadbed preparation , grass waterway shaping, leveling and seeding.
• 8) creekstone retaining walls planed, hauled and constructed with landscaping.
• 9) hiring and/or supervision of workers:
  • a) logging crew for big hardwood timber; $26,000.00 timber sold 1986-87
  • b) cedar crews: 26,000 b.f. cedar hauled and sold;
  • c) firewood crews for cull chipper-log disposal.
  • d) crop planters, haulers and harvesters
• 10) combine, tractor and truck operation and mechanical repair. Inventing in equipment, implements and accessories for farming. Steel design, assembly and welding: Design and assembly of 220vac electric starter for D-4 Cat Dozer, and custom hydraulic and undercarriage systems. 4WD GMC 25 1 ton Log skidder w/ 12 vdc winch and custom bed. 8hp. weed-chopper. "time saver" twelve foot land-plane. Two foot subsoiler. Chevy C-30 custom flat-dump. Chevy C-60 modified dump.

• 11) Legal research and defense against the wasteful and destructive Administrators, auctioneers, Judges, attorneys, heirs and would-be purchasers, et al. Robert Hedges goal has always been the salvation and maximization of the Hedges Estate.

There is a declining productivity by white-collar workers. The productivity of the white collar workers is 10% below the blue-collar worker. This is caused by :

• lack of adequate management attention;
• poor coordination of tasks;
• and lack of precise objectives.

There is a built-in quality circle when the farmer is also the manager, which increases productivity. Productivity increases because there is no autocracy to battle, however the frequent change of task will frequently decrease productivity, while it increases job satisfaction and morale.

========= Public Work representing self-employment skills also

COMMERCE DEPT. Census Bureau, Jeffersonville, IN; April-Dec. 1990 Checking Address Registers for accuracy; PES; Keying of data; analysis of statistics for Quality Assurance Unit; Logging of data, files, maps, target blocks, surrounding blocks, group quarters, census form batches; PES form batches; tracing of incomplete forms; mapping of target and surrounding blocks; library design mapping; shelving identification labels; signs; writing of two procedures to save time and streamline efficiency filing and pulling microfilm in Film Library; operating microfilm printer; PHUSS census form print checking; Questionnaire Library searching; Address Register incoming inventory Check-in; county map logging, hanging, pulling; Target Block Filing Method establishment; Microfilm request for Questionnaire Prints keying, printing and verifying. Material handling (muscle); supply inventory and pick up for QA & PES occasionally; Quest form sorting; Group Quarter inventory and Q.A. Control Clerk for PES Library; Geo-coding; Central Control Unit of Quality Assurance; Copy machine work; QA Report collating and sort; pick up of QA Reports from all units in two bldgs., and delivery to individual QA Clerks for keying and filing.
Census Temporary = working for nine different supervisors, with all the overtime which was offered. My versatility is proven.

BP -British Petroleum (Gulf Oil) Night Cashier. Inventory control, cash handling; restocking; disposal; Lottery ticket sales, money orders, & car wash sales . Sept. 1989-Aug. 1990

BRANTLEY Crowd Control, Brantley Security: Part time- parking and crowd directing, crowd-control for special event exhibits. Summer 1991- spring 1992

AIRPORT Parking cashier -. APCOA ; January 1996-May 1999. REPUBLIC May 1999 to Dec. 2001. Regional Airport Authority Parking; Dec 2001-present

Self-Employment (1996/1997) as: video technician; document scanner, organizer, and CD Rom disc maker - The applications in a law firm for the skills are recent developments - case documents and records can be stored in digital form, and briefs with sound and video demonstrations can be made on CD for ease of transport. Depositions work well on video, and these can likewise be digitized on CD.

ACCOUNTEMPS- Temporary accounting, filling in for vacationing permanent workers. Deposits, accounts payable and receivables. Bonded for cash handling. Manual and automatic adding machine and typing. Filing and actualizing old account records. Louisville and Bardstown, KY. May - August 1989.

ACADEMY PUBLISHING CORP. Fort Wayne, IN. Bonded courier for collecting remittances for advertising in specialized publications. Spring 1989

W. R. Layman, Electrician, summer 1985. Mobile, Commercial, Industrial, Residential.
WYATT Electric Co. Heritage Hall Rest Home, Lawrenceburg, KY. autumn 85-spring 86.
Barco/Baraco Electric. Commercial, Bacons Shelbyville Rd Mall, 1988.
READY Electric Co. Kosmosdale Cement Plant- Industrial 1988.

IRVIN CONSTRUCTION INC. spring & summer 1986. Excavation, concrete forming and pours, drainage, piping, cross sectional drawing for excavation estimation, take-off for bids, lay out for grade and excavation.