Post Second Divorce Until Retirement

For the next twelve years, until I retired, I worked at a series of free-lance technical writing jobs, procured through various temp agencies. And in between those, I worked as a substitute teacher, a lawn care provider, mower, and a waiter. I also taught Aikido and Tai Chi a couple of times a week for a little extra cash (but none of it was anywhere near enough to live on, just a little to add to the rest of the small change I was able to scrape together during that time).

My first free-lance tech-writing job after Kenetico and my divorce was for PPI Technical Publishing, Inc., working on manuals for Picker, Inc. I don’t remember how much they paid, but it was way better than the in-between stuff.

Next, Volt Temp Services sent me to Rockwell Automation in Euclid, OH. I was there through the Millennium scare of 2000 (that computer clocks couldn’t handle the change to the new millennium, and the glitches would shut down life as we’d come to know it … didn’t happen) and the 9/11 twin tower attacks in 2001. Again, I don’t remember how much they paid me, nor how much they paid Volt for placing me there.

Note: Adding all the pay from the temp jobs and all my side-jobs together was never enough to support me and fulfill my obligation to the State’s Child Support decree against me. Yes, all my wages were attached by the state, but there was never enough, and I was always in arrears… Didn’t get it completely paid off until the year before I retired. Having it paid off was the only reason retirement was possible for me.

To be Continued…

–LE