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Now let's see...where'd I leave off...yeah...
I do have some other interests and skills. I am familiar with how to work on my own vehicles. but don't do a whole lot of
that. I can do brake jobs and oil changes, install stereos and stuff (did that for a couple of years back in '75 and '76). I own a fair amount of tools, including some woodworking
tools. The Roto-Zip spiral saw is pretty neat, but I wish I did more to utilize it. I also have a couple of drills, nice bit sets, a couple of good tool sets for working on stuff. Now
that you know this, (it really has nothing to do about me), I'm just disappointed that I don't have a workshop to put it all in and use it.
Personality: I've had many women say to me that they wish their husband's were more like me. Not necessarily in appearance, but
in the fact that I'll listen (unless I'm totally preoccupied) to them and try to encourage them to talk and express their feelings. But I never give advice 'cause I don't know
anything. I hate arguments in which there's any shouting (I usually won't do it unless I'm REALLY stressed, which is very rare).
I can remember an employee of mine at Radio Shack coming in after his shift. He was slightly intoxicated. I wasn't there, but
him and one of my other employees starting throwing things at each other, I suppose just fooling around. One threw a speaker at the other, missed, and hit the track of the security door.
I wasn't aware of what had happened until the next morning when I couldn't get into the store. Luckily I had another employee opening the store with me. He was much smaller that I
and could fit under the security door (we managed to slide it open about 6 or 8 inches) so he could turn off the alarm and we could then lift the gate manually, straighten the track (we did), and
get things back to normal. Instead of getting mad at the other two employees, when they came in later that day, we had a discussion about what had happened, found out what started it, then
calmly sent the person that caused the incident home. He got fired, but because of the way it was handled, he wasn't mad or disappointed a bit and felt that he had it coming. But I tend
to handle a lot of situations like that. And when I'm wrong about something, I'm wrong. No excuses, lesson learned, I'll hopefully know better next time.
You'll find that if you ever do get a chance to meet me, I'll be exactly like I'm describing here.
Education: I've actually had quite little formal education. I almost finished eleventh grade in high school before becoming
disillusioned by what I was learning, or not learning. Wasn't challenged. I tried going back to school in 12th grade, but the fact that I wouldn't have graduated with my class (class of
'72) was very disappointing. Because of my parent's constant moving, I'd lost some credits along the way. I quit school officially a couple of months into 12th grade, but on my
job applications I mentioned that I'd graduated. I am an intelligent person...I could already outdo most of my classmates in reading and comprehension, so no problem. I did actually go
back to school (Hemet Adult School) in 1983 to finish up the other 15 credits I needed to graduate (yes, only 15!). Got 'em in 11 days. They said that was a record. I cheated,
though. Got to class at 8 am, worked 'till 2 pm...no breaks...no stopping. It was self-paced, so I could go as fast as I wanted. I wanted to get out of there quickly..
In 1984, I started college...wanted to further my education. I decided on business courses, since I'd taken some in high
school. Tested out of most of the required beginning classes, except for a higher-level English and a remedial math class (because of moving all the time, I seemed to lose sight of algebra, which I
somehow never took, and wasn't a requirement to have taken it to get your high school diploma). I attended classes at San Jacinto Community College (California) just long enough to realize that
I didn't agree with the course study, and decided it was just too basic. Unfortunately, I'd already worked at Radio Shack for about 5 years prior and gotten a great deal of management
training...found out that I likely knew more than the professor about management in real-life situations. I did learn a lot from Radio Shack, that's for sure. Their training was quite
complete (including sending people to Tom Hopkins seminars, as well as Dale Carnigie (they used to, anyway).
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