Peter is ori­gin­ally trained as a car­penter. But, even before leav­ing tech­nical high school his teach­ers already told him to be too clumsy to swing a ham­mer. Peter thus moved on to study archi­tec­ture at uni­ver­sity. But, after one year of draft­ing and draw­ing, the lec­tur­ers decided that he was not cre­at­ive enough to be an archi­tect. Not per­turbed by this second dis­ap­point­ment he decided to become a civil engineer.

Peter even had an engin­eer­ing career which allowed him to travel around the world, build­ing islands, bridges and pipelines, des­troy­ing nature every­where he went. But, even early in his career peter decided not to be tech­nical enough to be an engin­eer and star­ted study­ing philo­sophy and man­age­ment. He recently became a PhD can­did­ate at La Trobe Uni­ver­sity, research­ing the rela­tion­ship between organ­isa­tional cul­ture and ser­vice quality.

Peter cur­rently works for a regional water cor­por­a­tion in Vic­toria, Aus­tralia where he man­ages a team that assists land developers in con­struct­ing water, sewer and recycled water assets. In his spare time, he per­forms magic shows for chil­dren and main­tains a per­sonal web­site with philo­soph­ic­ally ori­ented mus­ings about the world.

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