He remained in primary teaching for six and a half years. After completinga diploma in reading education he took a year off from teaching and beganhis Postgraduate in Education Studies-Reading.

In 1985 he took up a post in the secondary school as as Reading ResourceTeacher. Although he enjoyed the area of work he began to find that thesystem was wearing him down.

After returning from long service leave in 1989 he started at a newschool and began to plan his exit out of a system he felt was very unsatisfying.He started his own tutoring business in 1992 and called it, Tutor Help.

At 37, Joseph's sights were set on new horizons. Having spent the last16 years in teaching he felt he had missed out on the other things life had to offer and was determined to look for greener grass.

In 1992 he started to record his life experiences and his personalphilosophy, in his first book, entitled,"Just an Idea". The logical stepafter leaving teaching was to do something he knew something about.

In 1994 he began to write about whathe knew most about - his teaching. He decided to start writing educationalmaterials for the secondary school. "Study Skills", was the firstproduction. This was followed in 1995 by a study skills guide. He was stillnot satisfied that he had treated adequately the importance of "attitude"in learning, so this led to the creation of "Learning & How!".It was an important step because it showed the author the advantages of computer softwareover the usual written materials.

Since 2000