Copyright (c) 2004 Toomas Karmo. Revision history: 20051014T163057Z/version_0003.0000 (updated to reflect problems from the period 2005-06-01 to 2005-10-14); 20050804T160854Z/version_0002.1005 (made some tiny corrections); 20050729T235839Z/version_0002.1000 (added psychiatric-history section, added material on a minor 2004-and-2003 client); 20050729T045940Z/version_0002.0000 (made major revisions, to reflect activities since 2003 August, and to state past psychiatric difficulties, most notably at York University and Nebular Vision, with proper candour); 20030802T212134Z/version_ 0001.0000.

Salaried and Contract Work

This résumé is designed to be essentially silent on my work as an aspiring scientist-in-private-practice, as a private analyst of information and energy technologies, and as a freelance writer (in other words, on what I do in those numerous hours in which I am professionally active and yet am not functioning as a member of the conventional workforce). For the freelance writing, please consult my portfolio, in the "Literary" section of my Web site.

Education

Recent Significant Volunteer Work

Psychiatric History

It is prudent to supply a full psychiatric history on this résumé page because many people (corrrectly) perceive me to be eccentric. (One might, alternatively, say, in the demeaning language of business, that since I am damaged merchandise, commercial transparency requires me to supply the marketplace with a damage assessment.) My difficulties, which have persisted at a steady level as the years have gone by, put me into some mild danger of becoming a homeless "street person". My best guess, however, is that (to use briefly the language of pastoral theology) I shall be granted sufficient graces to rise above my difficulties.

It is possible that this psychiatric history will prove useful not only to prospective clients or employers but also to two classes of medical researchers: (i) investigators of sexual pathologlies such as the homosexual boot fetish, particularly in relation to Asperger's Syndrome and genetically driven dysthymic unipolar depression; (ii) investigators of side-effects from Prozac (fluoxetene hydrochloride), particularly as presented in electroencephalographic sleep studies. (I may indeed later succeed in drawing the attention of some relevant clinical research workers to this portion of my résumé. If additional clinical subjects like me can be located, some useful dissertation work could perhaps be undertaken by a graduate student or two, ultimately generating a couple of helpful articles in the peer-reviewed journals.)

Although a résumé is standardly presented in reverse chronological order, forward chronological ordering maximizes clarity in this particular psychiatric history.

For a more colourful and literary treatment of the themes touched on here in necessarily grey and clinical language, the reader is referrerd to the "Literary" section of my site for links to, or other pertinent information on, my pieces "Total Catholic Woof", "Leather Lent", and "Depression, the Body Politic, and Frankelian Freedom-to-Appraise".