Career Opportunity

Career Satisfaction for the Right Person or Couple

Time sure does fly when you're having fun! Ron and Peg Marson have been creating TOPS activities together for nearly a quarter of a century, and are beginning to wonder what will become of TOPS if we should retire in a few more years. So we are looking for an eager, creative, dedicated someone, or sometwo, to carry our work forward into the next generation.

We sit in a small but happy niche in education, rather quirky, very playful, a little precarious, and never routine. Financial reward is not the attractive feature here, but career satisfaction is off the charts.

We have determined that we need folks who are within a reasonable commute of our home-based industry in Canby, Oregon, a little south of Portland. Applicants should think in terms of a part-time "second" job during a training and transition process, and hours will likely flex with our publishing schedule.

Intrigued? Get to know more about us and our publications on this site. Then show us your stuff. For example: Can you write creative lessons? Work up your own original hands-on activity and mail it to us. Are you artistic? Draw a few TOPS-like peoplets demonstrating how to put something together. If you're a marketing whiz, propose how you might carry our small non-profit forward into a changing world. Your initial presentation doesn't have to look polished; creativity and originality are easy to recognize.

Don't be shy about introducing yourself by email. We'd like to know who you are. More importantly, we really want to see what you can do. And you will want to know more about us and what we can offer. So send us something. If we like it, we'll begin a conversation. If it doesn't look like a good fit, we'll thank you and send it back.

Notice that we are not asking for your resume at this stage. We are more interested in what you want to achieve in the future than what you have had the opportunity to do in the past. The resume part can come later, which will come as a great relief to many of you bright young folks without much work history. We know, we know, this isn't "how it's done." But then, TOPS has never been very conventional.

Please understand that we're NOT looking for new projects to publish. Rather, we're looking for talented people to mentor into TOPS and make it their own. While classroom experience, computer savvy, artistic talent, marketing and business know-how are all wildly desirable, we'll gladly consider all idealistic and energetic candidates.

Most sci-encerely yours,

Ron Marson
(president, curriculum developer, business and advertising manager, paper clip improviser, inventor)

Peg Marson
(illustrator/designer, copywriter, editor, alpha-tester, secretary, household muse)