j-c-c-62
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In college I started my own company building professional speaker cabinets on the side.
The business grew and after college I worked a few years as yard foreman for a construction company in South Florida that built high rise buildings, and lots of them. With the first gas crisis 74 the construction industry took a big hit and I went from having 50 workers to having three employees including myself in the yard. One day I was instructed I needed to lay off another person. One of the workers was Bostic, been with the company for 30 years, he was sixty, the other employee was Jessie, been with the company 24 years, he was 55. Both nice guys and hard workers.
So I fired myself, and never looked back.
Been my own boss/company owner ever since in the technical end of the concert industry, traveled the world, made a decent income, earned a good reputation, got to build a lot of cool/neat stuff in our machine shop, and retired 1/23 after 2 years of shutdown from COVID.
So not sure I qualify for the "failed" label employment wise, at least in my eyes.
Life is great, and I appreciate my blessings.
The business grew and after college I worked a few years as yard foreman for a construction company in South Florida that built high rise buildings, and lots of them. With the first gas crisis 74 the construction industry took a big hit and I went from having 50 workers to having three employees including myself in the yard. One day I was instructed I needed to lay off another person. One of the workers was Bostic, been with the company for 30 years, he was sixty, the other employee was Jessie, been with the company 24 years, he was 55. Both nice guys and hard workers.
So I fired myself, and never looked back.
Been my own boss/company owner ever since in the technical end of the concert industry, traveled the world, made a decent income, earned a good reputation, got to build a lot of cool/neat stuff in our machine shop, and retired 1/23 after 2 years of shutdown from COVID.
So not sure I qualify for the "failed" label employment wise, at least in my eyes.
Life is great, and I appreciate my blessings.
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