Comment 59350

By JoeyColeman (registered) - website | Posted February 06, 2011 at 07:53:15 in reply to Comment 59327

In terms of The Spectator calling me a parking "gatekeeper," the statement is inaccurate.

I don't really care what title I'm given as my writing and work represents itself.

I work four hours each morning as the parking supervisor at one of the hospital locations in Hamilton. It's a job I held prior to being hired by Maclean's and have kept because it enables me to pay the bills if I ever needed to resign as a journalist.

Presently, my employment there enables me to write for The Globe part-time online and engage in my activities locally.

Without this part-time position locally, I would be unable to make the push for streaming of City Council and Open Data.

In short, even if I were a parking "gatekeeper", it should not be held against my work in the community. We need everyone to be involved in making Hamilton a better place. Even the "lowly" parking gatekeeper.

For the record, I've been working in parking for a decade and many of the "gatekeepers" are highly educated hard working immigrants who could be contributing more to society if we added recognition of their foreign credentials.

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