Do/Did for a living…
This means not jobs while living at home.
My dad, remember, US Army, moved with family to Korea in January after I started college. I was not kicked out at 18 as some are, I was abandoned except getting a check once a quarter to pay for college. My older brother was also in college so Dad went to Korea with my younger brother and my step mom who he had married just before I left for school. I came home for Christmas and Dad said “Get want you want or need, we are moving to Korea.” Oh, OK.
I am 100% in support of his decision to transfer overseas. US option was a return to DC which he hated and my younger brother and step mom had not lived overseas and traveled as was available with such assignments. Younger brother was 1-4 years old when we lived in Germany. My old brother and I remember sightseeing a nice chunk of Europe on family vacations.
So now I’m on my own but didn’t have to do anything for a living until I had wasted 4 years at college. Found out funding ended so I got a job as a cook at IHOP for a year in the St. Louis area, then returned to Knoxville because I knew I was going to go back to school sometime. Didn’t know I could have used the portal and gotten picked up at some other school, portal wasn’t a thing back then. Anyway, got a job as a Bellman at the Hyatt, but the low man doesn’t get scheduled when the football home games filled the hotel with big tippers. After a month the owner of the hi fi store whom I bought my Crown DC-300a from 3 years earlier asked if I wanted to work the counter at Hi-Fi House during the fall-winter season. This led to a 3+ year stint before I returned to school.
Was a laborer building a friend’s house one winter before getting a real job, process engineer at a pulp mill in SE GA. Moved to a liner board mill in East Bay Area, California, then to a chemical company in Phila. Musta gotten tired of working as when I left I didn’t search endlessly for another position. I started messing with gear and made ends meet recapping, refoaming and some flipping of gear most of this century.
Didn’t know I had retired, but guess that is what it was, looking back.
Now to sell off all the extras I picked up when buying gear I wanted. Then fix some pieces and such to lower the number of components in the home. That is a job now that a large receiver is work to move around.
