Re: What was your first job out of college?

On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:23:22 -0400, "Paul E. Schoen"
<pstech@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


<stacyr29@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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And, did you like it? What did you do and where are you now?

Thanks.

While I went to college, I worked at the same company where my father
worked, and I was variously employed as a draftsman/illustrator, technical
writer (for a military manual), and QC inspector. When I left college, I
worked at this same place as a draftsman, at a very low hourly wage. I
often helped one of the other draftsmen to do his job, and when I found out
he was making about twice what I was, I asked for a raise. It was refused,
because the personnel director said that the other draftsman had a family
to support, while I was still living at home and didn't need the money.
IIRC, I quit immediately.

So, I found a job supervising newspaper boys selling new subscriptions, at
a higher pay than I was getting, and then I found a better job as a
draftsman again at a job-shop. Their contract ended and I enjoyed
unemployment for 26 weeks.

Three years out of college, after also running a part-time TV/stereo repair
business, I got a "real" job as an instrument technician, and about three
years later, I became an electronics design engineer, which was what I
always wanted to do. The company was sold 15 years later, to a company in
Dallas, but I didn't want to relocate (or work for them), so in 1989 I
started my own business in electronic design (www.pstech-inc.com), and
still enjoy it.

It took you SIX years to get the job you were educated to do?

--
Al in St. Lou
.

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