On 9/5/2011 6:02 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:25:11 -0500, George Leppla
> > wrote:
>
>> On 9/5/2011 12:10 PM, George wrote:
>>> A lot has happened in the 20 years you have been out of touch. There are
>>> numerous schools that offer 4 semester programs in areas such as HVAC.
>>> Thats two years of classroom plus lots of practical experience.
>>
>>
>> Popular trade here in the South and there is a HVAC school here in
>> Shreveport. Class and work experience. As you can imagine, there is a
>> big demand for residential and commercial AC mechanics down here where
>> we had close to 60 days with 100+ temperatures and there are always help
>> wanted ads in the paper for HVAC people.
>>
>> George L
>
> Same in the north... who do you think maintains all those food store
> reefers and commercial AC. Many do nothing but service semi trailer

The thousands of skilled folks who used to have jobs in or supporting
factories that we no longer have. As I said you need to get out more to
see you live in the world that used to be.


> and RR box car reefers, many only work mass transit AC. Any qualified
> HVAC mechanic is only out of work because they choose to be... that's
> true for all skilled trades. Sometimes tradesmen relocate to where
> there are projects that are paying big bucks but that's why they're
> called Journeymen, that's how I came to work for Lockheed Burbank on
> their SST mock up. I've worked in manufacturing all my life, in fact
> for my first 20 years as a master tool and die maker (must have
> changed jobs twenty times, got a wide range of experience), my last 20
> years I was employed as an ME at a major high energy research facility
> that employed every skilled trade there is, from steamfitter to
> glassblower... I know how to make stuff. I served a formal
> apprenticeship right out of the navy at a company that made the
> insides for electronic vacuum tubes, Ford Radio& Mica Co., had no
> relation to the Ford Motor company. I was trained by an old Svede, I
> was taught gutt... by today's standards that would be deemed abuse.
> I've never been without a job except by choice and always made a
> decent pay check. Occasionally I tried other occupations, even earned
> two college degrees but always came back to manufacturing... I'm a
> hard hat kinda guy who enjoys solving mechanical problems trouble
> shooting machinery out in the field, I hated being a suit chained to a
> desk. The reason I enlisted in the navy is because there was a draft
> then and I didn't want to end up in the army with all that dirt and
> mud like my friends did. Fortunately I knew how to cook so I never
> had to do much deck swabbing and paint chipping. I learned to cook at
> a very early age, most of my family was in the food business. It was
> wartime. There were no daycare centers then. For me daycare
> consisted of long days spent in restaurant kitchens, where even as a
> toddler I was given jobs. Being wartime there were very few men
> about. I was constantly doted over by women, my mother had three
> younger sisters, all had lots of female friends, there were always
> lots of women around. The first time I saw my father was when the war
> ended, I was nearly five years old, he scared the shit out of me, I
> never did get used to him. I really don't like men. I like breasts.
> Breasts are soft, warm, comforting, and smell like yeasty bread dough
> rising... men are hard, cold, calculating, and smell like dirty
> terlits. I hate beards, I could never trust any man with a beard that
> hides their facial expression. I like smooth bare naked female
> flesh... all those women didn't think thay should wear clothing in
> front of a four year old boy, they never gave a thought to being naked
> when they bathed me... hot bath water was dear then, they put me in
> the bath with them. They'd put me into bed with them at night to read
> me stories from little golden books to get me to sleep, was no TV
> then... and winter was cold, wasn't much money to feed the boiler coal
> either, it was much warmer cuddled between breast flesh. At four
> years old I knew more about what women did when they thought no one
> was watching than few men will ever know. Now yoose know.