Darrin Doyle

About this episode

Darrin Doyle shares his diverse career journey and passion for music.

Darrin Doyle [https://www.darrindoyle.com/] was born in Saginaw, Michigan. He has worked as a paperboy, a janitor, a mover, a telemarketer, a door-to-door salesman, a Kinko's Copy Consultant, a porn store clerk, a pizza delivery guy, a prep cook, a magazine store clerk, a technical writer, a freelance newspaper writer, an English teacher in Japan, and finally, a professor and an author. Darrin has a brown belt in Tae Kwon Do and wishes he had stuck with it a little longer to get the danged black belt. Darrin hoards and plays lots of musical instruments: guitar, piano, drums, mandolin, banjo, bass, ukelele, and a diatonic 4-string stick dulcimer [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FshiDVafecI]. He lives in Mount Pleasant, Michigan and teaches at Central Michigan University. He knows what skeletons do. This is something rather than nothing [https://www.somethingratherthannothing.com/]

People in this episode

Host: Ken Volante

Guest: Darrin Doyle

Topics covered

• biography
• education
• music
• teaching
• career paths

Keywords

• Darrin Doyle
• biography
• music
• teaching
• Central Michigan University

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Central Michigan University

Places: Saginaw, Michigan, Mount Pleasant, Michigan

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