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To: SeekAndFind

They left off POTUS. You don’t have to have any qualifications or meet any requirements for that position.


42 posted on 08/08/2012 9:53:13 AM PDT by bgill
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To get advancement and good pay, there is nothing like producing positive results to your employer’s bottom line.

I started work on a offshore oil and gas platform as a maintenance mechanic. Once got a grasp of equipment and operations, I went looking for the overlooked aspects to be applied in the streamlining of maintenance procedures. I submitted ideas which were put into effect, resulting in less downtime and increased runtimes. In two years I was maintenance foreman, then transferred to another division and put into engineering department. The company then sent me to numerous schools for highly technical classes. Later was put into surface and downhole operations, there I came up with mechanical inventions for which I was granted US patents, to include one for a well blowout preventer.

After 20 years with the company, found myself making a higher salary than many engineers with more years of service. Finding I was just burned out, in 1991 I took early retirement at age 52 with full benefits.

As an aside, my formal education stopped at 8th grade and later getting a GED.


47 posted on 08/08/2012 10:44:59 AM PDT by Sea Parrot (Once I was young, now I am old and the in between went way too fast)
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