The right's obsession with AOC

[Belsnickel]

(02-27-2019, 12:46 PM)GMDino Wrote: Indeed!  LOL!

Dad didn't want to move to Indiana with the job.  I was 12, my sister was 8.  We had a stay at home mom.  All our immediate family was within 10 miles of home.

He took odd jobs, found a full time with our church...and got fired with 18 months of earning a pension because we got a new priest who decided to "save money".  Dad offered to work for half or free just to get the time in and was rejected.  That ended up being a blessing in disguise because his next part time job turned into a full time job he had from the late 80's until just this past January when he retired at 74 years old.

Hard work will get you places.  Greedy businesses make it hard though.

Edit: Long before he lost that first job I strongly remember going shopping with him and he ran into a coworker who asked if I was going to work there too someday.  Dad said "No way.  He's a paper pusher." and he was right!  LOL!  It took awhile to get there, but it's pretty much what I do now.  I worked hard at various jobs from flipping burgers to moving furniture to lots of other stuff in between and around though.

I have forgotten the order of the jobs my dad worked after Vietnam. Got out in '69, married my mother in '70, had my sister in '75, and had me in '85. I know they had a trailer near my mother's family farm at first, then moved to Standard Shaft and had two different houses in the patch during that time. My dad worked at Volkswagen, Lennox, Idlewild, and doing electrical work in various places in the Laurel Highlands area after going to GIT with his GI Bill. The jobs were drying up in the '80s, though, and my mother's parents had purchased a motel down here, but were getting to the point they couldn't run it. The timing was right, so they came here in '86.

After seeing that area, today, and what my family has to go through that remained there, I'm thankful they made that decision.

(02-27-2019, 12:49 PM)michaelsean Wrote: Damn you could have been the original Colts fan on this board.  I don't think your dad would have gotten too mad because you could have still respected the Steelers.

You know, since my entire cognitive life has been here in Virginia you'd think I would've been a Redskins fan, but some things are just too disgusting to think about.

I say that, but I've actually been thinking about switching allegiances to Washington teams. If only I cared much about pro sports anymore.