King of Cane Garden (eBook)

My Life & Times, from Teacher Boy to the Corporate Heights and Depths

Irvine D Weekes (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020 | First Edition
246 Seiten
Distributed By Ingram Spark (Verlag)
978-1-0878-6729-8 (ISBN)

Infos

After leaving rural Barbados in his teens, Irvine Weekes began an odyssey of adventurous education and employment perhaps unmatched by West Indians of the twentieth century. Armed with indefatigable optimism and faith in his survival instincts, he would serve variously as a child teacher, policeman, psychiatric nurse trainee, bond portfolio manager, MBA financial executive, corporate head of several major Caribbean brands, livestock magnate, real estate agent, taxi entrepreneur, waiter, tow-truck manager and financial adviser, among other pursuits. A man of uncommon wit, inventiveness and energy, Weekes brings to life the anti-colonial struggles waged for Caribbean nationhood, the formation of the Canadian social-democratic identity and his role at ringside (sometimes in the ring) with many of the key characters in each drama. Equal parts love story, career adventure and purpose-seeking travelogue, The King of Cane Garden is an unvarnished and raw yet thoughtful account of the West Indian experience abroad, the randomness of career achievement, the transcendent nature of lifelong learning and the universality of our chances at redemption.

Inhalt

1. Introduction 1 2. American Me 3 3. Closer To Thee? 11 4. Cane Garden 17 5. Louis Lynch 31 6. My Barbados, Right Or Wrong 41 7. Porgy’s [P]Luck 45 8. Bahamian Odyssey 49 9. The Nassau Scene 60 10. Wild Oats, Rum & Ginger 69 11. Never Say Goodbye 84 12. Back In The Books 112 13. A Real Job 135 14. This Changes Everything 146 15. The Wheel Turns 163 16. New York, New Work 169 17. Jamaican Prosperity 175 18. Things Fall Apart, Then Together 193 19. After Five Acts, A Sixth 207

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.2.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: An educational primer • Caribbean political growth • Spiritual Growth as a success model • The transition from Caribbean colonial business models to the emergence of locals business leadership and owners
• ISBN-10: 1-0878-6729-0 / 1087867290
• ISBN-13: 978-1-0878-6729-8 / 9781087867298