before there were anything but workshops (no college courses except computer science)... if you didn't change jobs prior to every 5 years, you ended up on the losing end of being able to change jobs. The excuse was the technology was changing so much, that your old job wouldn't keep up, so you had to move on to where the new tech was being used. But I often wondered, that new job? Were the people wanting to move on from there told the same thing? Anyway... I lived paycheck to paycheck, regardless... 'cause back in those days it was a man's job, and I was a woman doing tech and electrical repair. I never will forget the day I found out one of my coworkers (a man, of course... who was somewhat slow on the uptake, with no social skills), was doing the exact same job that I was at 30K a year more than me. Hell, I wasn't even making 30k a year!!! I ended up quitting there just as soon as my TS clearance came through, and went to work for a DoD consultant and never looked back. Still didn't make great money, but at least it was a more level playing field.
I loved my dad more than anything, and he got me into the electronic repair field when he repaired radios and TV's. My biggest dream was for the two of us to open our own shop together for computers. But he could never make the tech jump. But biggest "oh, well"... At least I got my talent and skill from him, and I passed the love and experience on to at least one of my grandsons and one of my nephews. The nephew sets up new offices for his company all over the world, and has been to Singapore many, many times. The nephew has his own streaming channel. So, my Dad's genes carry on! 
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