I do. They've never had to commit me to any kind of ward after oversharing on a social networking site but give it a couple decades.

Thread is juicy.

Athoslord, Aramishawk, and Porthosland ride together once again.

For the record, I got kicked out of High School at 16. Some of the jobs I held between 1976 and 1981 include:

- dishwasher at a nursing home
- janitor at a nursing home (really old people **** on the floor and clog their toilets a lot)
- selling (or trying to) newspaper subscriptions over the phone
- roofing and siding (try slamming your thumb with a hammer when it's 10 degrees out - takes seconds for the pain to register)
- short order cook at a sub shop
- warehouse work at a paper goods distributor. Brown paper grocery bags come in 50 pound bundles. Try unloading and palletizing a full 40' container of them sometime.

In 1981 I got my first factory job. Lost out on a promotion to work in the test department so I took some night courses to learn about electronics. Got the promotion next time it came up.

In 1986 I moved into consumer electronics by starting out assembling and testing tweeters. 500 a day was the minimum quota. Eventually moved into drafting (I'd taken 2 years in high-school) and then design after taking some night classes to learn Autocad.

In 1997 moved out here and got another design job. Had to learn Solidworks on my own to get the next promotion. Over the course of the next 20 years I very slowly worked my way up through the company working as Engineering Manager, Operations Manager, Resourcing Manager, and right before the crash, V.P. of Product Development and Operations.

Of the 36 employees we had back in 2014 I've been the last man standing for the past 3 years. I maintain our entire engineering and doc control database. (over 28,650 files and 26.3 Gig) I set up our cloud server and our FTP site. I do customer service, tech support, QA/QC, operations stuff, and the occasional design and product development work.

32 years of full-time work taking baby steps along the way to go from mopping **** off of floors to basically running a company - except for the finance stuff. The owner negotiates with the banks and factory owners and his wife handles accounts payable and receivable as well as payroll.

I never had anything given to me. Never had anything just drop into my lap. Just a ton of hard work, self motivated skill set enhancements, and 32 years of slowly working my way up.

Blah, blah, blah. Not sure why I wasted the time typing all of this. You musketeers will just blow it off with your typical disdain.

We already know everything about you dude, you don't have to tell us again.

Dude's daddy made him a millionaire by the time he was 8. Great comparison Athos.

:bonkhead:

Why did your geriatric mommy have to call the police and have you hauled off? What was your shortcoming that caused that to happen? That never happened to me so I’m wondering- I don’t get how another person could be in a difficult situation like that

I worked hard at maintaining my mental health. Pulled myself up by my bootstraps. Why did you fail and embarrass yourself and your family when I didn’t?

Ya, just shoot me already.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_breakdown

And leave family out of the discussion bucky.

One of these days you'll actually make the connection to a criticism without having it spelled out to you after which you still either miss the point or pretend you do.