Rikk Price's - About Me

Howdy, my name is Rikk Price. I am 34 years old and work in the IT field at The Greater Murray Clinical School in Wagga Wagga, Australia. The Greater Murray Clinical School is a division of the University of New South Wales and was created to train doctors in rural and regional areas.

In the past doctors were only ever trained in large cities and tended to stay in the cities after graduating. The Clinical School will change that with studies indicating that 80% of the doctors will stay in the region they are trained in, balancing the shortage of doctors rural Australia is facing.

I am a current member of AIM , the Australian Institute of Management. AIM hold monthly breakfast meetings in Albury, and normally have a guest speaker who talks about their area of expertise. It is a good opportunity to network and build up industry contacts. They also have a professional development program that ensures that one maintains and regularly updates their management skills, staying abreast of the latest developments in management.

I also hold membership at the AMI, the Australian Marketing Institute. They have similar professional development programs to AIM but are not quite as active in regional areas as the Institute of Management are. They do however produce a high quality magazine that allows members to stay abreast of the latest developments in marketing.

Some of my hobbies include computers and abseiling, although computers tend to consume most of my time. My other passion is motorcycles. I own a BMW K100RS, which is a bit of a change from the Honda CM250 I owned for the five years prior.

My other hobby, abseiling started during a beginners abseiling course through the local continuing education centre. At the time it looked easy. The difference lies when it is your turn to stand on the edge of the cliff and drop. Ultimately I worked my way up to running down the cliff face first. Although it is daunting to see how far down it is and then traverse it within a matter of seconds, then manage to still stop before the bottom is reached.

That about sums up everything.