BIOGRAPHY

John Miron

Born 11, 05, 1962 in the Melbourne suburb of Caulfield in the state of Victoria, Australia, John Miron has lived most of his life down under whilst adventurously growing up in a family of 8 (including himself and his parents) under a good old fashioned Aussie farming lifestyle. He first grew up in Heatherton in a small farming community on the then outer suburbs of Melbourne. At the age of thirteen he moved to West Gippsland and lived just out of a township called Warragul, in a century year old house where his parents currently plan to live until their last day. The location is approximately 100 kilometers east of Melbourne and was primarily a dairy farm area, which has four seasons. At the same time, his parents introduced growing carrots in this area and also ran beef cattle instead of adopting the norm of dairy farming. From his perspective, living on a farm was a great way to grow up as a child and then teenager and that his family finances were well controlled as they always had plenty of food on the table and good clothes to wear. Being heavily influenced by his parent’s lifestyle, he is 2 years younger than his eldest brother David (1960), 2 years older than Frank who is a twin of Therese (1964), 4 years older than Anne (1966) and 6 years older than youngest sibling Bernard (1968). Being closer than ever today (excluding Anne who ran away with her boyfriend during her teenage years), the marriage of his parents Denise (his mother) and Benjamin (his father) still remain strong. 

As a child, John loved playing all types of ball sports, hunting with his father, riding bikes at home after school and having spud fights with the family before returning for some delicious supper. He refers his parents to being both legends. They always made friends feel welcome and taught him and his siblings to respect people with the same respect they wanted to be treated with. His parents are farmers and are very strong on family values and spending time as a family. He recalls his strongest memory of his father as a friendly, humorous, hard worker that has a positive and happy attitude to life; as he refers his grandmother as a caring, smart, never give up hard worker and an awesome cook.

He went out on his first date when he was 16 years old in a local drive cinema. Today however, he is married to his spouse Irma Miron (1968) who he referred as a person who was tall, attractive, has a good sense of humor and always liked to help people. He met his wife in the jungle of Sumbawa at the Newmont copper mine project. He was the Maintenance Superintendent and she was the Accounting secretary for the same company. He has had several great memories with his spouse but her ways of looking after the boys one by one as they were born and also her support for John as he has moved from job to job during his career has genuinely motivated his life. John doesn’t really want to redo anything in his life because he believes “everything happens for a reason”. However being a bit wiser when he was younger in terms of saving money is one action he wouldn’t mind fixing “but you can’t put an old head on young shoulders so no regrets”.

John Miron can be described as a friendly, trustworthy, positive, adventurous and optimistic hard worker who never stops believing in himself and others. His friends always look up to him as an inspirational and motivated adviser as he is always willing to help others with their personal problems with his wise and intelligent words. Having grown up in a life that made him quite adventurous, he never gives up and tries to convey, “good is not enough when better is possible”. Overall, he wants everyone to be happy and doing something they love. For many years, John in particular, enjoyed riding motorcycles cross country and raced Motorcycle Enduros. He also was very competitive in Billiards and Darts and has won several local tournaments in his time around the area. In Bali, where he lives now, he currently enjoys spending time with my family and helping to facilitate his boys with their golf. He also enjoys boogey boarding and going on family outings to watch the latest movies in the cinema when he is at home in Bali. Because there isn’t really any adventurous bike tracks in the island of paradise, he has stopped doing something he never thought he’d stop doing before which was riding motor cycles (although it is a passion he wouldn’t mind continuing).

He believes society today has become a world of electronic communications.

The positive is computers have never been at our fingertips like they are now but the negative is this new era is seriously impeding our younger generation’s interpersonal communication skills. People are also living longer due to medical breakthroughs.

The occurrence of growing up on a farm employment started at an early age for him however his first job was out of the family business as an Apprenticeship mechanic with a local company that sold trucks and farm machinery in the area. John’s first salary for a standard 40-hour week was fifty-two dollars. On his first day, one of his mentor caught on fire while repairing a tractor and his skin was flaking off which was a very scary first experience for him. He is genuinely proud of what he has achieved in his professional career and to start life as an apprentice mechanic and work up the ladder into management roles has been a long and steady process. He is also proud of his strong family values and positive attitude to life that has been carried on from generation to generation.

All he is working towards now is retirement with enough money to get by. Possibly starting his own business so he can spend more time at home instead of working away on mine sites. Continuing to support and build security within the family and helping the boys develop their skills in golf as they all say they want to be professional golfers are other achievements he is awaiting to accomplish.  After the greatest ride you can ever get, he would like to be remembered as a father and husband that always put his family first. A guy with a positive and happy attitude to life in both personal and professional views that always had a sense of adventure.