Occupations

 

My first house. I built this one completely by myself from digging the footer, pouring the foundation, plumbing, electrical, roofing to selling it. It sold with in 4 days upon finish, for $32,000.. After closing the buying lady asked, "Now Mr. Darnell, why did the house sell so cheap?"  I remember answering clearly, " Cheap? I made $10 and hour on this house!!"  Clearly my occupation as a builder needed some upgrading!!  LOL

SO for now:

As a boy I remember wanting to wear a uniform when I grew up. I admired my brothers, cousins and uncles in uniform. Moat boys at one time or the other want to be a policeman or a fireman.  Many want to be a train engineer. Most boys have no idea there are engineers other than train engineers. LOL

Over my long-life span (BTW I never expected to live to be near 90 yrs old) I have enjoyed many occupations.  But over the years I have learned of things I never even thought of before as an occupation.

When I saw a Greyhound bus driver I never thought his job  as it was. For some reason I thought he went from Canada and drove his bus to Miami Florida. I never pictured him being home every night say, in Charlotte, NC. I couldn't know he drove his bus to Atlanta, GA in the morning and then drove another bus back to Charlotte that afternoon; and was home for supper.

Since I had a brother and several uncles and cousins that drove trucks, I knew they started up towards NYC , then back south. Many times they were away from home weeks at a time.

Our friends Dal and Marian have a grand daughter who went to China as a teacher. While there she fell in love and married. She can come back to the USA, but so far her hubby cannot leave China. An occupation sure changed her life.

We have a nephew that worked in Afghanistan, while there he met a lady from Kenya working in a hotel. They fell in love and married. He now lives in Kenya. His wife and her daughter have not been able to gain the permision to travel to the USA. His choice of occupations changed his life for sure.

Occupations have redirected many lives, I applied or a job in Viet Nam once but did not get it.  Probably a good response, huh?

Has an occupation changed your life?  Someone you know? What is the strangest occupation you have been associated with?

Nite Shipslog

PS.    AGAIN. YOU readers here are OK! I Just want to say thanks for being you. Oh, in ref to my first house, when I was building that  house, $4 an hour was top pay, so my $10 was Super dooper! LOL