Erik Retallick

I am a freelance music teacher, adviser, blogger, Christian writer and small business adviser. I am aiming to adise and help those starting out in small business careers in teaching music and religious studies, becoming involved in Church music, religious work (teaching and ministry) and acting in a consultancy role for those who want to work freelance capacity or start a career or small business in these areas.

This job involved setting up a CAD Cam system and overseeing day-to day operation of the system. I was also building a database of some 150,000 technical drawings and ensuring that drawings were were readily available to all parts of the company, including order processing, manufacturing and depots throughout the world.

This work involved dealing with customer and depot enquiries relating to the pricing and invoicing of our goods, (gaskets and packings). I also had to provide estimates and prices for customer contracts and regular orders. This involved considerable customer and depot telephone contact as well as telex and regular correspondence.

This was my first teaching post, teaching general subjects to a class of 35 11-12 year old children (boys and girls). I did a considerable amount of extra-curricular musical activities plus some athletic coaching.

Aspects of accompanying Opera arias on the piano, musical analysis, general piano musical accompaniment.

Music, education, Social Psychology of Teaching, Philosophy of Education, Sociology of Education, Multimedia studies, Teaching of Reading.