“Still Talking About Going Back To School”

Aug 30th “Still Talking About Going Back To School”

“Back to School…”

“This is a “Back to School” picture of me, at the “Hadley Tech” at 3405 Bell Avenue in the Midtown area of Saint Louis, Missouri”

When I was hired by the Telephone Company, they told me, that they have a four week training period, and that, I would be receiving a full “PAY” check, all during the training weeks, and that they, did not want to hire me, if there was a possibility of my quitting just after training.

“So when, “school” will start up, will all of their time that they have invested in with training, not to mention, all of their money, spent on the Instructors as well, just to train me, will all of that, have been wasted?”

Well, how could I let them down, if they were good enough to hire me? I let them know right there, that I only needed (4) four more credits, and that I was going to make those credits up, by taking extra classes on my own time.

Before ever applying for work, I was planning on getting my High School Certificate, and that they could also count on me being on the job every hour, and every day and any hour, that they would need me.

So, that is exactly what I did. After the weeks of training and then working the regular “DAY” hours of eight to five, for a period of time, that is so they have enough supervisors that can check you out, on how you are doing and if you are following their training course, to the letter and without deviating or doing something your own way, which is not according to their correct instructions.

Training was fun and very interesting to me, as each student had to write down in their own stenographers’s note book, everything that would be needed for any future reference. Since most of this information had to be remembered, so having written it all down, myself – it was not too long and before I knew it, just the way they figured, everything sunk in and stayed with me – for LIFE!

The above photo, It just did not look like me, but now that I look at it, I do wish, that I still had that nineteen inch waist line! Sure would be nice if we could just change ourselves, back to that extra special good looking way, that we did look, when we were very young and in suck terrifically good shape!

(There must be a secret to this idea, and I am guessing that, I was not in class on that important day, to learn how you keep the body from getting older and changing from what you did start to look like?) D.V.