Memoir – My Wage-slave Career Continued

I left the narrative off here in my last last memoir post. So, to reiterate a bit before continuing.

After Hall Processesing, I did more free-lance writing, substitute teaching, and even drove a taxi cab for a while before my next full-time technical writing job at Kinetico Engineering Systems in Newberry Township, OH. Kinetico required me to write business proposals, manuals, and other documentation for their industrial Reverse Osmosis systems, which catered to the booming computer chip industry in California at the time, before most of it was off-shored to China.

They started me out at $26.5K, and I worked there for about eight years. With the off-shoring of most of the computer chip industry, our business contracted so much that they laid me and a large portion of their manufacturing and engineering staff off in 1998.

This also coincided with the end of my second marriage (a more than 20-year relationship) early the previous year.

To be Continued…

–LE