Hi Jim, Very interesting. I didn't know what you did for a living before. I'm glad you shared that with us.
Smile. On 4/13/11, Jim Kitchen <j...@kitchensinc.net> wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > I lived in the first house behind the bank on Bellfield Avenue, which is off > of Cedar Avenue just out of University Circle. I could see Case University > out my bedroom window and it was close to a mile walk to the Cleveland Sight > Center. I had to be at the bus stop by 6:30 to catch the 32c Cedar bus. I > would get off at Taylor boulevard and wait for the Taylor bus, which would > drop me off the other side of I90 near east a hundred and eighty fifth > street at about 7:45. So I walk across the frozen pedestrian bridge over > I90 and back up South Waterloo road to the company Fastener Service. > Fasteners are nuts, bolts, screws, washers, rivets etc. Fastener Service > bought bulk wholesale and sold smaller quantities to local companies. Parts > went from so small that thousands would fit in the palm of your hand and > weigh almost nothing to a single steel washer that weighed a pound.Or bolts > 2 foot long and an inch and a half in diameter. Or a nut seven and a half > inches across. Some of those were specialty parts to places like NASA, > Diamond Shamrock, Rockwell etc. I did work my way up to warehouse foreman, > but my job was still toting boxes and kegs of greasy, dirty steel parts > around a non cooled or and barely heated warehouse to fill, package and ship > orders. The kegs could weigh up to two hundred and fifty pounds. I was > just barely legally blind due to tunnel vision, so I did everything > including using the battery operated three wheel walk behind one ton rated > fork lift to load and unload trucks. It was a hot, dirty, nasty job. They > even kept a supply of salt tablets on hand. Good thing too as I needed them > on occasion. But hey from carrying all that steel around all day for years, > I never lost an arm wrestling match back then. Before that I worked the > kitchen etc in my Dad's bar in Glenndale Arizona. Not really much fun > working a hot kitchen in Glenndale slash Phoenix Arizona either. Before > that I worked shipping and receiving slash plant gopher for the repair > department in a nice cool clean electronics factory named LFE. They > produced analog meters of all types. You know like the toe meters used for > front end alignment in cars to refrigeration control meters or the UV meters > in sound equipment. At that same time my Dad, Brother and I built a house > and sold it for profit. Before that I was an external automotive > reconditioning specialist. Yep, dried cars at the car wash. And at the > same time bought pounds and sold ounces of pot. Before that I worked on my > Grandparents farm planting and harvesting fruits and vegetables. That was > good honest dirty hard work as well. But great fun driving the farm > tractors and being the boss of the high school girls picking strawberries. > Before that of course I had a paper route. Ok, so now since December 1989 I > have been learning myself how to and writing blind accessible PC dos and > Windows games and utilities as a hobby. > > BFN > > Jim > > A Buckeye is just a worthless nut. > > j...@kitchensinc.net > http://www.kitchensinc.net > (440) 286-6920 > Chardon Ohio USA > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
