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To: ManyMoose who wrote (371148)7/1/2010 3:31:21 PM
From: alanrs11 Recommendations  Read Replies (6) | Respond to of 794268
 
All of them on this planet, but in the time period to which you are no doubt referring I worked my way through college (3.34 GPA, major Biology, minor Economics, took 5 1/2 years) where I also swam competitively, started (on a $500 loan) and ran a successful light manufacturing business (28 full time employees), worked as a head hunter (when the guy I sold the business to went bankrupt and didn't pay me), found myself a job with a screw company and worked my way up to master scheduler, moved to California and worked in production control in an electronics assembly plant where I moved up to manufacturing engineer (taught by some old Scottish guy who was way overqualified and bored with it-he just worked on the ponies and answered my questions when I had them) moved into project management for that stupid radar I had written the assembly instructions for and knew by heart all 20,000 pieces, every resistor and capacitor and whatnot.

Along the way got married 3 times, had a nervous breakdown, bussed tables, played a lot of frisbee, other stuff.

Coming out of that, after three years of knowing I had gone too far and that there was no way back (a dark and desolate place), something strange happened (not all at once, but slowly, in fits and starts), learned the ironworking trade, certified welder, foreman the last 6 years before I retired at 55.

Can take (have taken) an MGB apart and put it back together again (engine included, but never did a trans, damned carburetors are tough) although can't tell you the name of any of the parts except 'wheel' and 'battery'.

And now I'm here, bitching and moaning, with the goal of breaking a minute in the 100 yard freestyle after a 40 year break from swimming.

ARS