David Murphy worked for two major financial services companies before launching a career in higher education. He wanted to escape the "rat race" of the corporate world and enter the world he loves - teaching and writing.
David began his teaching career as an adjunct business instructor for Murray State University. From there he accepted a full-time teaching position with Phillips College, becoming the department head within one year. While at Phillips College, David created his first paid writing project - a book review for an Introduction to Business Law textbook. He left Phillips College for a tenure track
teaching position with Madisonville Community College in 1990, where he is still employed as a Professor of Business Administration.
Mr. Murphy teaches a variety of business courses - seven in all - and uses all aspects of his MBA degree in teaching his students and writing business plans. He teaches five courses each semester, except the ten years he worked part-time through the college as a small business counselor. David's writing experience includes the following:
* Participating in writing 110 different business plans
* Writing 18 marketing plans for local businesses as class projects
* Reviewing more than 15 textbooks and writing an analysis of part of each
* Authoring 6 test item files/test banks and coauthoring one test item file for major publishers
* Writing an instructor's manual and revising a second one for major publishers
* Creating 2 Internet Study Guides for revised editions of textbooks
* Coauthoring 2 genealogy/family history books with his son Nathan
* Authoring 2 genealogy books about Muhlenberg County, Kentucky
* Writing articles for a genealogy quarterly publication
* Generating a marketing plan for the business department at Madisonville Community College
* Authoring a booklet on network marketing
David is married to Linda LaDuke Murphy and has four children; each of them very talented in his or her own right. He has helped prepare each of his children mentally, emotionally, and financially for college. Retire With Dignity and 12 Steps to Financing a College
Education With Minimal Borrowing are a culmination of a lifetime of effort in successfully finding and securing sources of funding for retirement and higher education. The Murphy family now wants to share their expertise and experiences in these areas to
help other families be successful. David and the gang.
