Re: OT Survey: Age & Years of Machining Experience

BottleBob wrote:
Charlie Gary wrote:


1. What's your age?

41


2. How many years have you been involved in machining?


11


Charlie:

Now that's interesting , what did you do before?

This should be fun......

My last paying job before being a machinist was running the service
department for a Rainbow vacuum cleaner distributor. That began when I
left the Air Force to take a job with the Navy in Washington, but
somewhere in between the time I interviewed and the time I showed up
for work the DoD instituted a hiring freeze program I was eligible to
participate in. The classifieds revealed a job opportunity I was
qualified for at the time, and soon I was trying to lie to myself about
enjoying be a vacuum cleaner salesman. That lasted longer than it
should have, but I lasted until there were enough people asking for
service that I opened up the service department. At the same time I
got a job working at Target stocking shelves. After a while I
demonstrated a consistent ability to speak clearly, shower and show up
for work, so I was promoted to Electronics lead. That was where I met
a guy wearing grubbies asking about graphing calculaotrs. When I asked
him what he did with something like that, he told me about being a
machinist at Boeing. I asked how he got enough experience to get a job
like that, and he told me about Renton Technical College. So I quit
the job I hated most (Target), and soon after school started the job I
kept went bankrupt. No, I don't pick stocks.
Before Target and Rainbow, I pumped gas into airplanes and other
things for the Air Force. That was seven years of a truly mixed bag of
experiences. Before the Air Force I worked at Marmon Motors in Texas,
building the finest trucks on the road. If they were the best built
trucks, I would be scared to ride in anything else. ;-)
Before Marmon I worked for a welder who owned a portable service, but
he wasn't as smart as he thought he was.
Those are the jobs I got the most out of. There were the usual McD's
and grocery store jobs, and what 20th century childhood would be
complete without a paper route?
That's about it.

Later,

Charlie

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