Career choices ...

   I'm pretty sure everybody at one time or another
questions whether they made the right career choices
in their life.  For me it was a no-brainer.  I was tired of
school.  Tired of working a minimum wage job and
not wanting to leave the valley.  The steel mill was
the perfect fit at the time.  Good wages, decent hours
and just enough summer layoffs to allow me to pursue
my other activities.  As long as unemployment and sub
pay held out it was the best full time/part time job in
the valley.
   In retrospect I'm thinking maybe I should have pursued
other options. As I get a little older I'm starting to realize
what forty years of climbing, pulling on wrenches, working
swing shifts and double shifts can do to ones body.  How
much better my life could have been had I picked a kinder
gentler profession.  I loved drafting and drawing but to
pursue a job in that line of work meant more school.  I
considered Gynecology but again, more school plus the
fear of developing 'tunnel vision' scared me off.  Possibly
the one career I overlooked that I should have looked into
was becoming a weather forecaster.  Let's face it, they aren't
any better than us at predicting the weather they only work at
six and eleven for about ten minuets at a time and they never
get dirty.  It's a win win win.  I'm thinking maybe a weather
job in Tempe Arizona would be the ticket.  Weather never
changes. Nobody depends on your forecasts for outside
activities .  You could probably write one forecast the first
of March and just replay it through October.  All you would
have to do is change suits and take a few shots in front of a
green screen and superimpose them every so often.  Yea I
think that's where I went wrong.  It should have been either
that or a professional golfer because you never see them out
in cold and snowy conditions.  But since I lack the coordination
and skill to hit the ball vast distances I guess that's pretty much
out too.  Oh well .. I never looked good in those fancy pants anyway !