What Did You Do Immediately After High School Graduation?

I graduated in 1960....just as that Vietnam mess was starting to explode....felt the draft board breathing down my neck. So, I joined the Air Force, and got an outstanding education in electronics, which set me up for a great career.
 
Came home and had a party with family, went out drinking all night with my classmates, took the summer off and started school in the fall.

Two years later I got a job and worked nonstop until 2005 when I was laid off and decided to stop working for good!
 
Aunt Bea said:
Came home and had a party with family, went out drinking all night with my classmates, took the summer off and started school in the fall.

Two years later I got a job and worked nonstop until 2005 when I was laid off and decided to stop working for good!
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None of my business but how in the heck did you get laid off after what appears to be a whole lot of years so the question is in what industry were you in to get laid off after all that time? I have been laid of a few times being in the offshore oil production business but it always came back.
 
fmdog44 said:
None of my business but how in the heck did you get laid off after what appears to be a whole lot of years so the question is in what industry were you in to get laid off after all that time? I have been laid of a few times being in the offshore oil production business but it always came back.
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I worked in accounting/financial services/IT for my entire career.

It was a constantly shifting and consolidating industry.

One day I was swallowed by a big fish and he decided to spit me out!


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fmdog44 said:
WOW!!:eek:nthego:
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Lots of factors as to why this happened. Hubby (then fiance`) was gone doing his military thing,I was laying around with my leg,from toes to hip,in a cast from a motorcycle wreck. This was the summer before my senior year. My parents came here,to the lake where I now live,every weekend. I hated coming here,given I was pretty much immobile. It was hot and I was pretty miserable. Was having a "discussion" with my mom about just being able to stay home on the weekends. She got frustrated with me and said "When Wes gets home,do you just want to go ahead and get married?" Well,that`s all it took. He got home in September,and then she said she didn`t really mean it and we would have to wait until I graduated. Well,that didn`t fly with us,so we started planning to elope. That would entail us driving to Idaho,the closest state that would allow us to marry without parental permission. Well,somebody (his sister) told on us,so after a meeting with all parents,they decided to let us get married. And 50 years,4 kids,16 grands and 1 greatgrand later,here we are!
 
Mrs. Robinson said:
Lots of factors as to why this happened. Hubby (then fiance`) was gone doing his military thing,I was laying around with my leg,from toes to hip,in a cast from a motorcycle wreck. This was the summer before my senior year. My parents came here,to the lake where I now live,every weekend. I hated coming here,given I was pretty much immobile. It was hot and I was pretty miserable. Was having a "discussion" with my mom about just being able to stay home on the weekends. She got frustrated with me and said "When Wes gets home,do you just want to go ahead and get married?" Well,that`s all it took. He got home in September,and then she said she didn`t really mean it and we would have to wait until I graduated. Well,that didn`t fly with us,so we started planning to elope. That would entail us driving to Idaho,the closest state that would allow us to marry without parental permission. Well,somebody (his sister) told on us,so after a meeting with all parents,they decided to let us get married. And 50 years,4 kids,16 grands and 1 greatgrand later,here we are!
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What a great story especially being that you were so young and it worked! That meeting with your parents has to have been memorable. It would make a great movie script.
 
Got high as a balloon-monkey with my friends for a few days after graduation, then went back to teaching (martial arts) for the summer.

Went to Florida (FIT) for Marine Biology in the fall, they over-enrolled and chased a good part of the freshman class out. So I decided to hook up with a traveling carnival as their "documentary photographer" - took lots of pics of sideshow performers. Partied with them too - good people, except for the one barker who threatened to kill me if I took his picture. :eek:

Left the carnival, went down to Key West, taught martial arts for a few months. Came back to NY, enrolled in NYU, moved to Greenwich Village, spent the next seven years teaching and getting my doctorate in Metaphysics.

Left the city after graduating, moved to California, studied TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine), got my OMD (Doctor of Oriental Medicine), hung out at Venice Beach.

When my Mom was dying back in NY I flew back, got a job as a chemist, met my wife-to-be in the lab. Got married, set up house. Moved to PA to take new job in Allentown.

... and on and on it went ...
 
Day after high school graduation, I moved out of the house I was living in with Guardians. Had been living with them since I started the 8th grade. They were loving, but extremely strict. Moved into the downtown YMCA Motel and was working at a Truck Stop checking tires, cleaning windshields and filling with diesel gas. Two weeks after moving out of the house and living at the "Y", I got a call from my Navy Recruiter asking, "You ready to go?" The next week I was headed to NTC, Great Lakes, IL. Got my Draft Notice, at home, a few weeks after Basic Training started. Army couldn't touch me. Navy kept me..........thank God! After the Navy, it was Junior College time.
 
Went to college, graduated, went into the Marines before I was drafted, after that I got a job as an engineer for DuPont, however, found out that I didn't care for that kind of job, so I went to flight school, earned my pilot's license, got a job with Air Wisconsin flying regional planes under the name of United Express, then applied for a job with the parent company United and was accepted and taught how to fly the B-737. Stayed with United for almost 34 years before retiring. While at United, I was able to fly all Boeing jets; the 737, 747, 757 and 767, which was my favorite.
 
ClassicRockr said:
Day after high school graduation, I moved out of the house I was living in with Guardians. Had been living with them since I started the 8th grade. They were loving, but extremely strict. Moved into the downtown YMCA Motel and was working at a Truck Stop checking tires, cleaning windshields and filling with diesel gas. Two weeks after moving out of the house and living at the "Y", I got a call from my Navy Recruiter asking, "You ready to go?" The next week I was headed to NTC, Great Lakes, IL. Got my Draft Notice, at home, a few weeks after Basic Training started. Army couldn't touch me. Navy kept me..........thank God! After the Navy, it was Junior College time.
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Actually, before enlisting in the Navy and before high school graduation, I wanted to become an Indiana State Trooper. Thing was, I knew the Draft would be after me, so I enlisted in the Navy. The "Trooper" thing went down the drain, but was able to work alongside law enforcement while in EMS in the mid 70's.
 

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