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My dad wants my kid to work in the cattle industry
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<blockquote data-quote="hurleyjd" data-source="post: 1602878" data-attributes="member: 4674"><p>My great grand father mined coal, my grandfather mined coal and my father mined coal. And by gosh I will mine coal when I am old enough. No my fore fathers never mined coal.In the era and small community that I grew up in you were exposed to dairy farmers, sweet potatoes farmers and watermelon farmers. None of kids had any exposure to any professional careers with out the exception school teachers, preachers and oil field pumpers. Had no idea when I looked at a catalog from the nearest college that had associates degrees in drafting and pre- engineering courses. Had no idea as what these careers were about and what person did with them. Well when I started I signed up for the drafting courses. A Tee square drafting triangles and such and set about learning. After finishing two years I was married and my wife and I was partnering with my father in an all Jersey dairy. So we had a misunderstanding in the partnership and I started looking for a job. I landed one and I did not know what the heck I would be doing. Reported to work and found out I would be a technical illustrator drawing exploded views of parts for an illustrated parts manual. It got slow in the Tech Pub area and I was loaned to the engineering department as a detail draftsman. The man running the department asked if I would like to transfer to his group and I said yes as I would be creating something for someone that was an engineer. I got along pretty well and was creative in my thinking and moved on up through the organization. Quit and started a small dairy and pretty well failed at it. The company hired me back and I never left. I ended my career as a senior design engineer. Pretty well lucked into any job or career that happened and also to my marriage that will be 59 years old next June 3 2020. Never planned anything just did my job and let my life go where ever I let it. I let my two kids find their own way in work and religion. Son is a banker and the daughter is an insurance executive. And I am still running a cow herd in my retirement to prove to my Dad who has since died that I can be a great cow man.</p><p>Really just fooling myself. Jest of my life story is let the kids decide what they want to do and expose them to different careers and let them decide.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hurleyjd, post: 1602878, member: 4674"] My great grand father mined coal, my grandfather mined coal and my father mined coal. And by gosh I will mine coal when I am old enough. No my fore fathers never mined coal.In the era and small community that I grew up in you were exposed to dairy farmers, sweet potatoes farmers and watermelon farmers. None of kids had any exposure to any professional careers with out the exception school teachers, preachers and oil field pumpers. Had no idea when I looked at a catalog from the nearest college that had associates degrees in drafting and pre- engineering courses. Had no idea as what these careers were about and what person did with them. Well when I started I signed up for the drafting courses. A Tee square drafting triangles and such and set about learning. After finishing two years I was married and my wife and I was partnering with my father in an all Jersey dairy. So we had a misunderstanding in the partnership and I started looking for a job. I landed one and I did not know what the heck I would be doing. Reported to work and found out I would be a technical illustrator drawing exploded views of parts for an illustrated parts manual. It got slow in the Tech Pub area and I was loaned to the engineering department as a detail draftsman. The man running the department asked if I would like to transfer to his group and I said yes as I would be creating something for someone that was an engineer. I got along pretty well and was creative in my thinking and moved on up through the organization. Quit and started a small dairy and pretty well failed at it. The company hired me back and I never left. I ended my career as a senior design engineer. Pretty well lucked into any job or career that happened and also to my marriage that will be 59 years old next June 3 2020. Never planned anything just did my job and let my life go where ever I let it. I let my two kids find their own way in work and religion. Son is a banker and the daughter is an insurance executive. And I am still running a cow herd in my retirement to prove to my Dad who has since died that I can be a great cow man. Really just fooling myself. Jest of my life story is let the kids decide what they want to do and expose them to different careers and let them decide. [/QUOTE]
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