When I graduated out of school in 1966 and started trades school and I started working at an aluminum foundry it was a hot place to work in the summer months. Wasn’t long after Oh Uncle Sam nailed me (drafted) in 68. ETS 1970. Went back to my old job at the foundry put almost 10 years there quit as they due was thinking of getting a union in and owner threaten to closing the doors.
I took up driving truck after words for 10 years I got to where I hated doing it because most of the time I was hauling oversize and over width loads. The farm machinery kept getting bigger every year. And the laws from state to state kept changing every year. I gotten so many tickets & fines from improper plates, permits over them years the state was going to take my license away due to having to many points. One thing I don’t miss is the blizzard of 78 and stranded in the windy city for a week. One other thing I don’t miss is going thru customs at Canadian border!! I quit there and went to work at a machining factory machining brake rotors and drum for Ford & GM trucks.
I had to take an early retirement from there back in 2002 due to having open-heart surgery. And one of my biggest things is if I had to do this over again I wouldn’t have taken up smoking back in 68 when I was over seas. Over the years I was smoking up to 4 packs a day just before my heart attack in 2002. It wasn’t to bad of a place to work just couldn’t take on the extra work my new boss wanted me to do. (Keeping a minimal inventory without running out of something in the mean time causing a job to shutdown due to downtime waiting on parts.) It was never racking, as it was H if you do and H If you don’t Situation.
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