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Tim Jones


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Gender: Male
Status: Married
Age: 58
Sign: Libra

City: ROME
State: Georgia
Country: US
Signup Date: 5/15/2006
Monday, May 21, 2007 

Current mood:  amused

Tim Jones BIO
It all started in the sleepy town of Buford, GA, back in 1951.  It was October, but the warmth of the summer sun was lingering for the birth of Mrs. Jones' darling baby boy.  After the birthing process Mom and Dad took me to our lovely home in Doraville, GA, where I grew up....kinda. 
I was somewhat of a normal child, without all the trappings of normality.  I managed to get through most of my school years without incident, until my senior year.  I met a girl, who I took to the drive-in to see "Bonnie and Clyde", with Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty.  Because of our curiosity, the hormones, and our youth, my first child was conceived.  Now, back in them days there was no question as to whether you would or wouldn't get married, so I accepted my responsibility and the girl I did wed.
I fled my home after graduating high school being voted "The Wittiest" in my class, and after four years of never taking a book home and having classes which consisted of: English, Phys Ed, Home Ec, Art, Shop, etc...I knew I was prepared to face  the world ahead.
I was scheduled to attend "The Columbia School of Broadcasting" in the fall, but by August I was the News Director of a radio station.  I started off making $75 per week.  The ill conceived marriage lasted only one year and so soon after the divorce I was "requested to leave" my first radio job...so I spent about 6 months unemployed.
I moved to Gainesville, GA, where I secured employment at WGGA radio, and later met my second wife.  She was young, in college, and her parents didn't quite approve of the union, so we eloped.  She said there weren't really any shells in her father's shotgun, and that he was just "joking".  We spent about a year in Gainesville together, then moved to Norcross, GA.  I left radio and took a job as a "meter reader" for a utility company.   The only problem was that I discovered I could make up the readings instead of having to drive around, get out of the car, fight off the dogs....etc.  Apparently I wasn't very accurate in my estimations, and after about 6 months they allowed me to retire from that job.
Alas!  I turned to an employment agency who secured my future by creating a union between myself the Eckerd Drug Company.  I started to work as a manager trainee!  Well, that lasted about 2 weeks.  On the way home for lunch one day I decided I wanted to be a private detective.  So I got out the phone book and called a couple of agencies and started to work that afternoon.  By the way, I never went back for my last check at Eckerds, I'm just letting it accrue interest for my final retirement (grin).  Anyway did the PI thing for bout 6 months and was layed off because I was supposed to be part time and they worked me more than the full time guys.  So, my brother-in-law got me work in the collections center for WT Grant Co.  It was a regular 9 to 5, Monday thru Friday stint and we moved to Cartersville, GA.  There I was recruited by the "Pic 'N Pay" shoe store chain.  After training I moved to Birmingham, Al, to manage my first shoe store.  After about 3 months there, they decided to close the store and transferred me to LaGrange, GA.
I worked for the company about 3 more months...then was asked to "retire" from the company.
Back into radio!  Started at WLAG radio and after about a year my second wife decided that her future would be brighter if she didn't have to come home to me everyday!  So again, abandoned on the road of life, sigh.
I left WLAG radio and went to work for the other station in town, WTRP radio.  I spent a couple of years frolicking around town attending the local pubs and frat parties, the I saw the girl who would become my 3rd wife.  She didn't respond to my advances initially.  I took about a year to get my first date, but I did get it and I proposed.  She had a daughter, 5, Alicia.  We were married about 3 months later, instant family!
We soon moved to Augusta, GA, where I went to work for WGUS radio doing mornings.  After a couple of years our son, Eric Thomas Jones, was born.
I left radio again to pursue a greater financial height and secured employment with a moving and storage company.  That lasted about 6 months, and it was decided that I would be better off in another capacity, in another company.  So we moved to Thomson, GA, where I went back to work for a radio station, WTWA and WTHO Fm.  I was with the station for a couple of years, but thought I could make a better living for the family doing sales work.  So I left to manage a furniture store in town.  About a year later, I left after being pursued by a couple of guys in the rent-to-own business and helped them grow that company from 4 stores to 68 in just 3 years.  But alas, I wanted to do something on my own, so I left to start a direct mail advertising business.
After about a month, and 1 mailing, I decided I didn't want to do that either, so I converted the business to a full service advertising agency.  The business grew over the next couple of years, but chained me to the office and I realized that I had just "created a job".  So I closed the agency down and began trying to design my lifestyle first and then try to make a business fit.
I designed a TV ad campaign and began again, that was 1989.  Since then I have appeared in over 40,000 TV commercials all over the Southeast, and am now involved in several film projects.  I work about 5 days per month and enjoy an income that allows me to relax and enjoy life.  My biggest decision today is whether to drive the Mercedes, Cadillac, or ride the Harley.
 

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Tim Jones
Tim Jones

 
My bio was originally on my page, but due to a "hic cup" it got lost....so I rewrote it and put it here. Maybe it won't get lost again....
 
Posted by Tim Jones on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 11:11 AM
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The Dirtracer Insider!

 
Tim,
wanted to be sure to come wish a very happy birthday and that it is all u could hope for and more my friend...
 
Posted by The Dirtracer Insider! on Friday, October 10, 2008 - 12:33 PM
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PROPHET MASTER ZION
PROPHET MASTER ZION

 
Tim when i read your bio. I cry tears. ha! master.
 
Posted by PROPHET MASTER ZION on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 11:41 PM
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Beth
Beth Jones

 
<P>I gave you 2 kudos, but next time let me proof-read it. I can tell you never took a book home from school. You should have least taken you English Grammar book home and at least flipped thru it.</P><P> </P>
 
Posted by Beth on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 1:50 PM
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The Dirtracer Insider2

 
Tim, this is a great bio, and I do thank U for sharing it will the public my friend...
 
Posted by The Dirtracer Insider2 on Monday, May 21, 2007 - 8:29 PM
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Starlight-Starbright♥Willie

 
<P>TIM, AS ALWAYS, I LOVE AND ENJOY WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY...WITTY,...YES,.. U R....AND I ALSO WORKED FOR W.T. GRANTS, IN WEST VA..HOMETOWN OF NEW MARTISNVILLE BACK 1972 TO 75 WHEN THEY WENT BANKRUPT!.</P><P>THANKS FRIEND TIM,</P><P>HUGSS, lOVE </P><P>WILLA AND 2 KIDS, TN</P>
 
Posted by Starlight-Starbright♥Willie on Tuesday, May 22, 2007 - 6:29 PM
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The official Claude - The Screenwriter
Claude Gagne

 
Hi Tim,

You've been around. Done this, done that...Don't we all go through that in life. I remember making $35.00 dollars a week cash. After paying all my debts, I think, I would have been better off panhandling at the corner. Pride held me back. Sometimes we go through life not knowing what will be around the corner, but we persist that someday the right girl will come around. Thank God, I didn't marry till I was sure, she was the right one to take care of me.

Well, I'm glad you have a choice in deciding which automobile to drive that day. I wear any colours for my 10 year old safari van. The van has a natural colour to suit any thing that I'm wearing. Usually jeans and a golf shirt, but I can't afford to golf. I guess, people think I'm a golfer.

Have a swell day and don't forget to jab the mouse and let me in.

Claude(Cleg(sciFi)
 
Posted by The official Claude - The Screenwriter on Saturday, May 26, 2007 - 1:33 PM
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Debra Frieden
Debra Frieden

 
I have NO idea how I came across your page, I think I put in Ad Agency in the myspace search. I am killing time at 1am, older I get, the whackier my inner clock gets......thank god for myspace to keep me mystified.

Really enjoyed reading your bio. And a Georgia boy too........:-) See things DO really happen down here in our ole lovely southern state.
 
Posted by Debra Frieden on Wednesday, June 06, 2007 - 10:17 AM
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Napoleon Hill -1883 ~ 1970
napoleon hill

 
This is an awesome bio, and you have a great knack for telling it to us... Thank you for adding me, and I am so glad that I found your site.

Britt Chucci
 
Posted by Napoleon Hill -1883 ~ 1970 on Sunday, July 08, 2007 - 10:31 PM
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Rusty
Rusty Pitts

 
Tim , what an interesting life that you have lived.... It seems that you are the Jack of all trades.... It is such an interesting story. I myself have spent my time looking for my calling... Thank God... I found it... but I too managed a retail shoe store in Birmingham.... But I have never been in radio.... Have been on it , but not in it..... I really enjoyed your bio.... May God Bless You ... Rusty
 
Posted by Rusty on Thursday, July 26, 2007 - 10:24 PM
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Sunee ?

 
Wow, your resume looks like it would read like mine! I always said that there was no need to stay at any job if you're miserable so I had many jobs in my younger years. Everything from pumping gas to driving stretch limousines to modeling.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading your bio. =)
 
Posted by Sunee ? on Friday, July 27, 2007 - 12:06 PM
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Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄ƷFaithƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ <style type="text/cs

 
Tim~ Thank you so much for sharing and being so transparent of a snipit of your life story.
I have a perfect book for you that I think you may enjoy to get if you enjoy writing. It's called "Story Of A Life Time" It's a wonderful journaling of one's life and really nicely layed out. It's not your typical book of journaling. It is a rather large coffee table style book.
The one thing that I found to be very interesting in you Bio is that you did not mention really anyone who was a mentor in your life. It appears you have been blessed and just knew how to figure things out. That is the one thing that is nearly 100% the case in every story I hear. Someone who came from nothing....there was always someone who took notice and became a mentor to them and guided them to the so called "success" they now currently have. I find too, that these are the people that give back to society and special causes.
I'm glad that you have found peace and blessings in your creative world that you can now live not with intensity.....but with intention, but most importantly. Effortlessly:)
Many More Blessings To You My Friend....In His Amazing Grace,
Faith
 
Posted by Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄ƷFaithƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ <style type="text/cs on Friday, September 07, 2007 - 5:11 PM
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harley. yep.
 
Posted by on Saturday, September 15, 2007 - 4:46 PM
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yasmin

 
Hi Tim

Well looks like you've just about done it all. Thanks for sharing your life.......

( better than being stuck in the same job for 18 yrs or so).

Decisions, decisions: the Harley.....
 
Posted by yasmin on Saturday, September 15, 2007 - 11:46 PM
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Terea Doster Photography
Terea Doster

 
honest comical reflecting..it is what it is..sounds like my life..my husband's life..everyone's life who listens to the inner voice..decisions, well today instead of driving, i would don my tennies and cruise through my wooded backyard with my camera.

 
Posted by Terea Doster Photography on Friday, April 11, 2008 - 4:02 PM
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Aury Moore

 
Design your Life..style.. first....and then try and make a business fit....

It is so easy! I wish I would have thought of it!! I am off to do just that!! Thank you for sharing....
 
Posted by Aury Moore on Friday, May 02, 2008 - 11:10 AM
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Bo Cox

 
wow....what a bio...very exciting....take care my friend...bo
 
Posted by Bo Cox on Friday, July 04, 2008 - 12:21 PM
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Debbie Bordelon
Debbie Bordelon

 
Hi Tim,

I don't know what made me stop by and read your blog today. I am so glad that I did. Your bio is very inspiring to me, being that I am at crossroads in my life. Thank you for sharing this.


Have an awesome day! - Debbie
 
Posted by Debbie Bordelon on Tuesday, July 08, 2008 - 9:56 PM
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Adamson Photo
Robyn Adamson

 
Tim, I'm honored to meet you, and I'm right there with you. (well, not quite... I drive a minivan and am working toward a down payment on a harley... and the necessary credit score to accompany the down payment)

I adore your writing style, and your background! Very nice to meet you!
 
Posted by Adamson Photo on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 - 1:49 AM
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I often wonder if my life would have been different had I gotten credit for the "Give A hoot, don't pollute" slogan...Then again, no one remembers the name of the guy who did, right? Oh well, I've kept busy since then.

Ride the Harley someplace quiet and peaceful away from the everyday traffic scene, stop in to a cafe, diner, or winery that you've never visited, order a new dish, smile and say hello to a stranger. That what we do.

 
Posted by on Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 8:38 PM
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Laney Ray

 
What I really want to know Tim...is when I can have a ride on the Harley? lol...hugs and kisses...Laney
 
Posted by www.laneyray.org on Saturday, August 02, 2008 - 10:23 AM
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Sharon Hewett

 
Wow- what a story! Thanks for the smile tonight:)
 
Posted by Sharon Hewett on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 4:38 AM
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Joseph Laya

 
Nice Bio.
I recommen to drive a Harley over the weekends!!
 
Posted by Joseph Laya on Saturday, January 31, 2009 - 9:39 PM
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