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.