04-12-2019, 01:58 AM
(04-12-2019, 01:14 AM)Nortoon_imp Wrote: My oldest brother won a scholarship and became a corporate lawyer. Bright guy but played the stock market. He and his wife now live in the basement of their daughter's home.
I am the third born of a family of 9 children. My dad could not afford to send me to university, but I did manage to attend a technical collage for a year with money I earned working in a bowling alley.
I worked in a paper mill after that. Because of my electrical courses I ended up with a very well paying job as an electrical power house operator. So I stayed for 3 years to save the money for the rest of my tuition and books.
Unfortunately after working and being use to having spending money, drinking beer, chasing women, and riding motorcycles (The road to he** one of my riding buddies Chumley used to say.) I could not focus on my studies. Luckily the collage had a long waiting list for students, so I was able to get my tuition and books money back.
The only thing I could find was a Clerk 1 job in the Federal Government. It payed less in 2 weeks than I earned in a week at the paper mill. But I did not want a shift work job in a noisy and dangerous work place. Fortunately over the years I worked my way up the pay scale in the government and have retired with a good pension. My wife was also a Civil Servant and has a good pension and a free medical plan that covers us both for life.
You never know was route your life is going to take. I use to envy my older brothers with their university educations and well paying jobs. But now I am sure they feel that I am the lucky one. I have nice home, beautiful wife, money in the bank, and I still get to ride motorcycles!
That is one dedicated wife.