In 1975 I worked for Boeing at VAFB, CA and was first in line for layoff.
I was offered a position in Lancaster to work on the B-1.
As a 21 yr. old single guy, that didn’t sound very appealing, so I declined and focused on college until I landed a job w Martin Marietta.
Lucky you didn’t. When they closed the original B1 line they were dbags about the way they did it. Guys were used to layoffs then as it went with the territory. One day the workers came in an found all of their tool boxes outside the gate where anyone could have taken them. That’s how they knew the were out of a job.