Orientation Friday

Tuesday February 5, 2008

Orientation Friday

I haven’t written for a while. I hate to disappoint the thousands that read my daily blog but sometimes I must take a break for all the adoring fans (ignore the hit counter, I sure that number is times thousand). I have been busy getting ready to change careers. I go for orientation Friday and then I have two weeks left here at work before I start school.

I wrote my resignation today. I haven’t given it to them yet. They really have a problem with people leaving on their own. It is like run away slaves.

I made it generic with a lot of bullshit. I used words like pleasant memories, good luck and continued success, experiences have been invaluable. What I would have liked to say is I am tried of working for retarded assholes that treat you like shit and I don’t have to take it anymore.

When I leave February 22 I will be two weeks short of 41 years in manufacturing. I started while still in high school working nights. I serve an apprenticeship in tooling and design. I went to school for 4 years while serving the apprenticeship. When cad/cam became a part of manufacturing I went back to school to learn them and then taught cad/cam in Florida and later in Tennessee. I have continued to go to school during my career and I hold teaching licenses in Florida and Tennessee. Now I can not get a decent job that pays.

I am excited to start school. My family and friends thinks that I have gone off the deep end. I am turning 60 so I must have some senility going on. What are you thinking leaving an engineering job to drive trucks across the country being gone weeks at a time? It makes prefect sense to me but don’t expect me to explain it. It doesn’t sound too logical when put into words. They haven’t tried to have me committed yet. They are humoring me so far and waiting to see if I come to my senses. Or they are waiting to see me fall on my ass. The problem is that I don’t fail often. That probable has them concerned.