Tag: history
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School of Hard Knocks – Memoir Addendum – Some Final Thoughts
School of Hard Knocks I’ve had a long, interesting (to me) life. Understanding of reality and my reality in particular have distilled out of my experience and long contemplations of it. Yes, I’ve had the standard primary and secondary education (indoctrination) relevant to my place in space-time. Then, over another 20 years or so off…
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The Golden Years – Memior – Final Chapter?
Retirement – The ‘Golden Years’ (?) I’ve already discussed most of my experiences since retirement previously. So, what exactly are ‘the Golden Years’ anyway? I’d heard about them for most of my working career. Not sure what I expected, but if ‘Golden’ was supposed to imply perfection and unbridled happiness, then the reality leaves much…
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End of My Wage-slavery – Part 8 – Memoir Continued
End Of My Wage-slavery After that, I did a short stint at Mactac in Stowe, OH. working as an administrative assistant. That lasted for about a year before they laid me off. As was becoming all too common, just another company restructuring and downsizing. My last Tech-writing job was at Phillips Medical in Cleveland. It…
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Memoir – Wage-slave Career – Part 7
Memoir – Wage-slave Career Continued After a couple of months of side-jobs, I was sent to Diebold by a temp agency (don’t remember which one) to incorporate the new Sarbanes-Oxley standards into their technical manuals and business writing MS Word templates and spreadsheets. I was only there for about 6 months, but they were paying…
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Memoir – My Wage-slave Career – Part 6
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…
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Memoir – My Wage-slave Career – Part 5
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…
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Memoir – Wage Slave Career – Part 4
Wage-slave Career Continued My first ‘real job’ after graduation from Hiram was as a resume writer for a small company that specialized in resumes and other business writing. I ran a small one person office in a little stripmall. The company supplied quality resume paper and the templates for resumes and curriculum vitaes. My compensation…
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Memoir – My Wage-slave Career – Part 3
My Career as a Wage-slave – Continued… At Airflex, I’d been making around $12.50/hr as a layout inspector/machinist/machine programmer. All my attempts at finding another similar factory job were in vain. None offered me more than a $10-11/hr income. With my growing family and the inflation of the time, that was disheartening. So, I rethought…
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Memoir – My Wage-slave Career – Part 2
My Career as a Wage-slave Continued… As I’ve already written about my years-long journey to ‘find myself’, I’ll stick to my maturing as a wage-slave, for what it’s worth. And yes, during all these times, I was also trying to jumpstart my hoped-for career as a musician, which sputtered for many years, finally igniting in…
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Memoir – My Wage-slave Career Part 1
My Career as a Wage-Slave (start) I started wage-slaving at the age of 10. My dad took me with him as his ‘go-for’ in his plumbing and heating business. He later branched out into remodeling and roofing too, which I also learned and worked at off and on in hard times throughout my working career.…
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