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Hi another masacistic soul joins the fold, After a life of many varied occupations from stage performer to fine art student to bus driver then records. In the early nineties I emerged form a second stint at studying fine art, realising that the career prospects were grim. So I applied and was accepted in the suburan bus system as driver and part time depot admin assistant/roster clerk( no one was more surprised than me ). Then sometime in '98 the government sold off all the bus services and tried to push all the employees to go too. I held fast and refused, and chose records management as an alternative seeing it is considered a core function, especially after the WA Inc Royal Commission. I thought that if any department that I was working in went done, then it would be easy to be redeployed to another. My preconceived notions of filing and the issues have changed dramatically - now I know the reason friends labeled me as anal retentive because my CD collection is classified by type and alphabetically shelved, even the groceries in the larder are grouped by type and alpha sequences in nice neat rows. Cheers Geoff Carruthers Acting Records Manager Department of Culture and the Arts Level 7 Law Chambers Building 573 Hay St Perth WA 6000