John Reynolds

My duties have included: forklift operation (loading customers, moving coils, pallets, and finished product); operating machinery (panel and trim rollformers, trim brake, slitter, standing seam machine); stocking product and performing inventories; interacting with customers; assisting in warehouse organization; etc.

• My duties included: forklift operation (loading customers, moving coils, pallets, and finished product); operating machinery (panel and trim rollformers, trim brake, standing seam machine, 5V panel machine); building crates and pallets; stocking product and performing inventories; interacting with customers; etc

• I was ordained in the Taungpulu forest tradition of Myanmar/Burma, and dedicated thirty years of my life to meditation, study, self-restraint, morality, and austerity
• I eventually became abbot of a forest monastery in northwestern Burma and a Great Elder (Mahathera) in the Theravada Buddhist Order
• I disrobed from the monkhood because I wanted to live in my native country of America, living in accordance with all the ancient Indian rules of discipline is almost impossible in western culture, and I felt that if I could not practice strictly in America I should not continue being a monk
• Also I did not want to spend the rest of my life in solitude
• I have written a great deal, mainly on Buddhist and philosophical topics, and have given public talks and taught students on an individual basis

• Company Overview: based in Seattle, worked at sea from Alaska to California
• I worked as a fisheries observer on Japanese, Polish, and American commercial fishing vessels, and also worked on a three-year study testing experimental fishnet designs for the UW School of Fisheries
• Based in Seattle, worked at sea from Alaska to California