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Originally Posted by HEATNBEAT
Welcome Jim!
was that a family own company?
didn't they hear of the child labor law  |
No It wasn't, but my dad was the Yard Manager there. He took me to work a couple of week ends and had me help on the second by cleaning the bathrooms and picking up chalks in the yard. (A chalk is a small piece of wood with nails in it that are placed on the ends of the 4 x 4s on a truck load of pipe. They cause a lot of flats in the yard.) By the third weekend I suggested they pay me and they did. I work all my summers and off time from school that I could. By 16 I was driving a 38,000lb Fork Lift and loading and unloading trucks. I also worked in the Fab Shop, Truck Shop and the Tube Line and Shaft Machine Shop. I built some of the first Vertical Turbine Pumps for Magic Mountain's water rides and ended up my career as the Lead Draftsman in the Engineering Dept.
It was an incredible learning experience.