06-24-2024, 05:59 PM
(06-24-2024, 07:17 AM)HiloJulie Wrote: Quick reply to Wao nahele wahine:
Thats amazing!
My grandfather, father and oldest brother (all on the Starship PunaWeb now) all worked for a company called Riley-Stoker that made steam boilers for oil, coal and gas power plants.
They all were Boilermakers by trade, but all 3 had eventually worked their way up to "General Foreman" and for years travelled all over God's green earth in the 60's, 70's and 80's building power plants.
My brother kept trying to get me to join as a Boilermaker apprentice in the early 1980s when I was in my early 20's, but both my father and grandfather told him they would fire him if I joined the Union.
So, I went on to join the ranks of boring copyright law.
My paternal grandfather was a steam engineer at General Dynamics for 20 years in San Diego. I was working a UT acquisition job on a sub at the San Diego Naval Base in the late 80's. The analysis crew got to work out of a hotel room which had all of their computer systems set up in it. We would bring the data back to them on tapes or disks, depending on what type of acquisition we were doing. I brought my grandpa to the data room to meet the analysis guys and show him a bit of what I was doing for a living.
Maybe you dodged a bullet not becoming a boilermaker..lol.
Wahine
Lead by example