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vanillafluffyI started the year training for a job doing soldering/assembly. I liked doing that kind of thing; my familiarity with tools in general carried over to fiddling with small parts and doing minute adjustments. The company was an hour south in Palm Bay at started at 7 AM. (I was younger then, and hardier.) I made enough money at that job to buy a VCR. Luckily, I chose VHS (not Beta!), although in those days, a VCR had a wired remote, a top-loading deck and a "cheap" one was $400. In its defense, that first VCR lasted 10 years!
I stayed there til August, when I got wind of a job doing the same thing in Cape Canaveral, which was a third the distance from home AND paid even better. I won a football pool at the second job, which netted me enough money to buy my own Sears electric typewriter. It was self-correcting and it had a one-line electronic memory. At the time, that was a Big Deal.
I'm trying to recall what else was going on at the time...nothing leaps to mind, although I remember that time fondly. I was writing, I had money coming in and only token rent payments to Dad going out. Life was good.
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I stayed there til August, when I got wind of a job doing the same thing in Cape Canaveral, which was a third the distance from home AND paid even better. I won a football pool at the second job, which netted me enough money to buy my own Sears electric typewriter. It was self-correcting and it had a one-line electronic memory. At the time, that was a Big Deal.
I'm trying to recall what else was going on at the time...nothing leaps to mind, although I remember that time fondly. I was writing, I had money coming in and only token rent payments to Dad going out. Life was good.
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