After my military service I went back to the steel mills of northwest Indiana.
I started as an unskilled worker, than I went to a campus of Purdue university.
My major was in chemistry.
Than a friend told me about an opening in the welding trade there in the steel mill.
I applied but was turned down because I had left my High School before my graduating class.
The High School gave a dated diploma after my graduating class.
A short time later my friend told me to apply again.
This time there was a new person in charge.
I think as soon as he saw Vietnam veteran.
That all it took, because the government was paying for any training we might get.
After four years, I was a qualified craftsman.
Have been only in infantry, there just a limited things.
One can carry over to civilian life.
But leadership, especially in time of war.
Teaches one, how to lead men.
Respect been one, than one Marine Corps Core Values.
Insures or re-enforce values of leadership, placing the workers before oneself.
That why down the line, I became an hourly supervisor.
Which I filled in till my head supervisor brought in another employee to fill in that position.
He just wanted new blood and to give another employee an opportunity in leadership.
I went back to welding till I retired a few years later.
Twenty-eight years of welding, three years of un-skilled work for a total of thirty-one years.
I won't question you about your job.
Somethings might be better left unsaid.