So as many of you know, "Large" went to high school vo-tech for welding and in his junior year he was hired onto a co-op job that he worked his junior year, during the summer between junior and senior year and during his senior year. 2 weeks before he graduated, they offered him a full-time spot which he took. He worked four ten hour days having Friday/Sat/Sun off (lucky bastard, I told him that schedule would ruin him to any other schedules for the rest of his life.) Well, that August after he graduated, he and a few other guys got furloughed. Tough break. He found some work and last week of October the same place called him back and he went back. Fast forward to second week of March this year. He and 9 other guys get permanently whacked. So he puts his resume out there and had an interview and a welding test with a major league construction company (offices throughout the midwest United States and east coast) as an apprentice heavy machine mechanic (welder) and apprentice operator. Has to join Local 542 and his starting pay is ho-lee shit!!!!! Medium is in Health Careers in the vo-tech school and has been working a co-op job at the same hospital as his nurse mother as a patient care technician. He graduates in June and has already been accepted into nursing school- he wants to be a flight nurse. Between the two of them Momma and I should be able to go to Shady Pines instead of the County senior citizens home. Damn proud of my boys who aren't afraid to get their hands dirty.
Early indications predict that Small will probably turn wrenches on heavy trucks and Extra Small will probably be some sort of Rocket Scientist or Nuclear Physicist or something similar.
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