What Did You Do Immediately After High School Graduation?

Like a few others -had a couple of odd jobs, enlisted in the Coast Guard for 4 years. During those 4 years I met and (after a couple of years) married my (now) wife. Went to college after the discharge and we produced 4 kids in the next 6 years. Thankfully (with those kids to support) I also started my employ as a civil engineer and retired 35 years later.
 

fmdog44 said:
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.
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The main thing I remember about that meeting was my (future FIL saying "Marriage isn`t all a bed of roses like you think it will be." Funny though,it pretty much has been. And both of our parents were younger than we were when they married,so they couldn`t even use that excuse lol.
 
After graduation I worked in the office of the electric company - kind of as a floater....did what I was asked ....typing (on a manual typewriter!), filing, sorting mail, answering phones. I learned a lot about office operations (and office politics). Good pay, and I got to dress up and wear high heels. :) It was a summer job, and in the fall I went off to college.
 

Keesha said:
Laid it down as in ‘gently placed?’
Just askin’

Hubby made me give mine away.
He claims I drove too dangerously. :xbone: :whome:
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Laid it down doing about 40MPH, had a huge pothole in front of me and cars on either side. Laid it down and kicked away, luckily nobody was tailgating me.

You must have been a two-wheeled terror!
 
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I remember quite a few kids had trouble finding summer jobs, and aside from there only being so many jobs especially in a smaller town, I think one mistake was that they waited until a month or two before the end of the school year to look for something.

A classmate/friend approached me when I was working at the grocery store asking about the possibility of talking to (whoever) about a job. (I had already lined up the summer job at the electric company and she knew I'd be leaving for college). I referred her, and long story short she was hired to replace me. This was networking before the term was even known.
 
Yes, networking before the term was invented. That's how I got summer jobs without having to ask.. My relatives knew the 'right people', so there was a job for me. Same at Xmas - our neighbour was the local postmaster, so I got a job delivering Xmas mail. Later in life, working for a big multi-national, I landed jobs before they were advertised. It's who you know, not what you know.
 
If I would've gone to college after graduation, I would've got a "deferment" from the Draft Board. But, definitely didn't have the money at the time for college. Did go later using my GI Bill, but didn't even get through an entire semester. I just wasn't the "college" type. Since then, have taken a few online classes, but seems as if most jobs don't even recognize online courses a prospective employee has on their resume'. In fact, my last Supervisor didn't care at all about any kind of college education and told me that. He didn't care either about someone who had been in the military or had related experience from the military, however he hired me.
 

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