To: David who wrote (173121 ) 6/12/2021 1:20:52 PM From: David Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 219539 Some societies where able to elevate themselves above the average and contributed a lot to today civilization in ALL of America’s counties with a variety of successes or failure. Best example would be someone born to a revolutionary refugee that fled China to avoid persecution and born in Trinidad Tobago and raised to the lofty position of being the first FM of the new China and KMT, even that his mother was steadfastly against him marrying a woman attorney - as in her opinion "a hen is supposed to lay eggs and not take the position of a rooster" Some time ago I worked with an engineer who said he lost everything in one day during the war that happened in Croatia . I had just moved to Calgary after leaving a job (because things looked to be slowing down) drafting storage tanks in Nisku and found myself at a subsidiary of a company that built mobile vehicles. I wasn't there long when after a dispute with my direct supervisor over how to properly communicate welding instructions I was moved downstairs to work with this engineer and I liked how we worked together. He often said to me, "No problems, only solutions." He worked hard, I had confidence in him, his instructions, and his changes to the work he allocated to me. It was very clear that I was not to send any work to the shop without it going through him first. He also encouraged me to talk to the people in the shop, such as the shear operator, about how they wanted to be instructed. I had the impression this engineer wasn't liked by the people upstairs, also that the people upstairs were not involved with creating the instructions for the projects we worked on. When I was changing to this job I had no idea where I was going to sleep in Calgary as the media was saying rental availability was very low there, my plan was to use a motel until I could find a place. Two days before I moved, the engineering manager phoned me offering a place to stay with someone they hired a month earlier from Winnipeg who had found a place bigger than he needed. EDITED: Replaced Serbia with Croatia. I think I made a mistake.