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[Frank S]

Speaking for my encounter for several years after my little tiff that day after I had moved on and started out on my own MR 39 who had been in his mid 60's at the time often came over to my house to hire me to make something for him. We were at the time of the tiff and until his passing about 20 years later quite good friends. He was just one of those guys who had started with a company at it's beginning and found that he had no skill set or desire to venture into other departments. It wasn't until I had hired in there that he started thinking he would become an Alpha dog type 1. he could not accept that some young guy who by his thinking couldn't have more than a year or 2 experience in any single field. It was a near impossibility in his mind that including my 6 years in the military I could have 14 years under my belt, while if truth be told those 14 years would translate to more like 30 or 35 years (wage slave years that is) . Heck I held a 6 g confined space certification and could make hot ties on live Nat gas pipelines when I was 16 yet here he was nearly 65 having worked in the same department his whole career doing the same thing over and over
I would have went off the deep end after a week of what he did his whole life
During the times he would come over for a visit , sometimes a few adult beverages might be consumed if we were just socializing and not actually constructing something for him, he once said that he thought that I might be savant at many things.
Who knows maybe I was at one time now in my later years I find that things which at one tie ware second nature to me require much more due diligence and thought before I attempt to design or make them.