Life After School
All of you will experience many careers and jobs in your lifetime after school. Here were just a few of mine.
1. I worked on a chicken farm my freshmen year in college. (Up at 4:00 in the morning, breakfast at 6:00, and I worked until the sun came down)
2. My Junior year in college, I went to a school to become a rodeo clown. The most important job of a rodeo clown is to protect a bullrider from being gored by the bull after the rider is thrown. (1st rodeo- I got the bull's attention, jumped into a heavy rubber barrell which the bull knocked up into the 2nd row of the stands. I packed my bags and looked for a safer way to make money)
3. After leaving Baylor University, I worked for a chemical plant in Atlanta, Georgia.
4. I decided to join the Army as a 2nd Lieutenant. While in this career, I learned how to parachute out of an airplane, attended several survival camps, spent 3 1/2 years supporting armour units at Ft. Hood, was stationed in Korea, and worked for 3 1/2 years in Germany as a company commander and other high level staff positions.
5. Finished my time in the Army as an instructor at the Defense Mapping School in Virginia, and was sent back to Germany and Thailand, where I trained soldiers in other Armies on how to make maps.
6. Now , in addition to teaching here at Workman (for 15 years), I use Geology maps to locate new mining locations and even operate a Distribution Center for International Trade.
I hope that your work experiences are as rich and varied as mine were.
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