We may have, but I don't remember her working there since I've been born. So she would have left in the mid to early 60's. Someone I went to high school with was working there when it closed, if I remember correctly. I haven't done shift work since 1998. I'm ok not doing that anymore.
Just an interesting addition to my getting hired at TWA... I received a phone call at the company I was working at from the machine shop supervisor at TWA. I went in to the break room to take the call and on the TV was news footage of the recovery operations of TWA FL800. I was offered a machinist job with TWA the day after FL800 went down. I'll never forget that day(July '96).
Currently I am an engineering supervisor and head drawing checker for Borgwarner Turbos. I am also the lead designer of the 2018 DMAX turbo and all 13.5L John Deere turbos built between 2008 and 2015 plus many more. Before that I designed the 6 liter Ford Powerstroke injector pumps while at Bosch Rexroth. Been doing automotive engineering for over 25 years. I put myself through school working in an automotive machine shop. I did mainly head work and cylinder boring. I also did some engine assembly. I got the car bug when my dad worked in a Caddilac dealers body shop in the late 60s to early 80s
Got outa high school 78 went to work framing houses a couple months later as it was good money for a kid that had no idea what to do with his life. A couple years later a recession hit and new construction shut down. So I went to work for a construction company that did high end residential remodels and light commercial improvements. They always had work and kept most of the carpentry in house so there did every thing from foundations to finish work.Stayed there until 97 was burnt out needed a change so when offered a job at Boeing as a assembly electrician I took the change. After about a year and half there I realized working in a factory wasn't my thing. I came across a carpenter job for a school district ,So in 99 back to what I love doing carpentry. Well this year is 20 years there and still enjoy work almost every day. I dont know if I'll ever know what I want to do when I grow up but until then Im happy with the path I ended up taking.
I read a quote from a fellow's obituary last week... "Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional". Seems to fit a lot of times in life.
I Worked at a small machine shop out of HS that did contracts for Boeing. My project was B1B door hinges. They were titanium and cost $8,000.00 each back then. Worked a lot for year and a half, and saved enough to pay for college. I should have moved to Boeing when house prices were cheap in WA State . DL
Musta been 80s 90s the house I bought in 88 was worth 4 times as much when I sold in 04. I hated Boeing but you coulda been retired nowDL Lol I have never nstalled one piece of paneling in my 40 years Must be a Oklahoma /Texas thing
A&P mechanic, Went to school at PIA in Pittsburgh from 85 to 88, got hired by a small airline company and moved to Indiana. In 98 got hired on at FEDEX, been here at Indy the last 21 years, living the dream. A great thread !
I quit high school in 87 at 16 years got a job at a gas station stayed there for two years.Went to work for my cousin doing waterproofing and sewer work and in 1994 became a local 860 heavy highway laborer.2005 started as heavy equipment operator in one of Cleveland's largest metal recycling facilities and eventually became a heavy equipment mechanic.I left there in 2015 and I now work for one of Cleveland's best rated places to work for.
I'm a Marine Biologist currently studying hard to become an Architect. I was once the top latex salesman in the Midwest.
You by chance didn’t retrieve a Titleist from a blowhole did you? Do you happen to know Art Vandelay? Kyle
Steve, yes I have made some decorative items but really just for fun. Back in the 70s and 80s we did not really have any color to work with. So not many people were making artistic glass. When color came out there became a huge interest in hot shop working again. I work with Borosilicate (Pyrex) and fused silica (Quartz).
For my birthday, one year, my wife got us a private glass blowing instruction. Since we had four hours, we ended up with a lot of glass balls, paper weights, vases, and cups.
I'm a little late to the party, sorry. Here goes... After graduating high school I worked at several service stations and then as a greens keeper at a golf course (I cut grass). Then I drove an RC Cola truck delivering soft drinks. I guess I did all of that to avoid going into the family business, but to no avail. I went to The Mendenhall School of Auctioneers in High Point, NC and became an auctioneer in the family business. We sold everything at auction: real estate, household goods, antiques, groceries, guns, coins, farm equipment, cars and trucks, etc. After learning how to sell just about anything to just about anyone I answered and ad for a salesman at the Chevrolet Buick Honda Dealership. After the training I hoped for a position selling Buick's but they put me in Honda. I couldn't believe it! I mean, who wants to buy a cheesy foreign car?!!? I soon learned they weren't so cheesy and they had quite a loyal following. After learning the product I was able to sell loads and loads of them. So I'm a single guy with my own house and a bunch of cars, looking like I had it made! Not so fast... I grew up in a conservative Christian home but I had left my faith there when I went out to sow my wild oats. When I finally surrendered to God and got saved I found out HE had other plans for me. I knew almost immediately that HE was calling me into ministry. I quit my job, sold my house and all of my stuff and went to Bible College in Colorado Springs, CO. After 2.5 years at school I got really sick. Diagnosed with something called Sarcoidosis. Autoimmune disease with no cure that attacked my lungs and gave me arthritis. I moved back home with the folks. After being home for about a week the pastor at our church asked me to be the YouthPastor. He thought 2.5 years of Bible College was enough to get started, but I said: "No way, I'm sick." He asked me to pray about it so I did. It went like this: " God, if you want me to do this, you're gonna have to heal me," thinking HE wouldn't. But HE did!! The very next day I felt 100% better. I started in youth ministry right away. With all of the Buick's I had re-acquired the teens gave me a new nic-name: The Faster Pastor! My first week on the job I took my teens to a youth camp and met my wife, she was helping out with teens from another church! For the last 25 years I've worked with my wife in her excavation & demolition company as an equipment operator/truck driver/ job foreman/site manager/auctioneer/ordained minister on a bi-vocational basis. I never did figure out if God had healed me to get me started in ministry or to introduce me to my wife...
VERY inspiring story Phillip! I was raised Catholic, HAD to go to church AND CCD on Saturdays But Im not a practicing Catholic, I DO believe in God, spirits, angels, and other things with no obvious explanation. Two weeks after my wedding I had a serious stroke, wife found me on the bathroom floor, all I remember was seeing squares and rectangles them BOOM, that was it, I was 40 at that time. Shop I was at let me go, guess they didn't want the hassle of a "handicapped" employee At 44 I was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma (blood cancer) went thru the chemo, still worked full time too. My point is my wife Pam stuck with me thru all of this, and supported me, I HONESTLY believe God brought us two together for this very reason, and many other reasons too. A few years ago my wife had a stroke, it affects her walking at times, and I was/am here for her also, she was working for Walmart at the time, going on 24 years, management was changing, wanting younger people they can pay pennies too, trying to force the longtimers out, she was soooooo stressed, her anxiety was thru the roof (mine too) she asked me about her retiring, I said DO IT! Were doing fine on one income, Im not worried, Im done worrying So God DOES work in mysterious ways, its just up to us mortals to stop and THINK about it, SEE it
