Maintenance WeirdoJuly marks my ten year anniversary with my employer.

Lies! That doesn’t include the time I spent as a temp (5 months).  Nor does it reflect that the company hired me got bought up and more or less no longer exists.

But they still count those years as time in. Hooray!

How does one go from a career path in communications, art, and design in the public sector to maintaining heavy manufacturing equipment in the private sector?

Short form;

  • get a degree
  • don’t get any call backs from 300 job applications in your chosen field
  • get discouraged
  • quit your job and sell your house
  • move halfway across the country
  • get turned down for jobs as overnight clerk at all of the adult video stores where you had hoped to observe an endless string of strange characters upon whom you could then draw inspiration for the great American novel*
  • get so desperate for money you apply at a temp service
  • accidentally discover a career you love as a maintenance machinist

I love what I do. I am good at what I do. Being eccentric is cheerfully tolerated.

Here’s to ten more years?

*Seriously, that was my plan. I also considered head shops and bouncing for strip clubs.
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