The Old Folks Home

[pennyJo1960]

Morning all have 2 cords of wood being delivered coops done wood garage cleaned baked potato is the easiest for dog or human runs

 

[perchie.girl]

Ron working in San Diego Post Aerospace has been an adventure and a scramble for jobs.... A total lesson in flexibility... I have worked in many many different fields just in order to stay in town.

I started out at US Elevator in the beginning then moved to Aviation... working on the F16 doing test equipment for their hydraulics... The engineer that hired me called the big boss a dumass and he got fired... And they said take your little helper with you... so I got let go as well.

Jim Overton was famous for his hydraulic innovations and he felt guilty about loosing me a job so he took me on for a while working on his personal progects... first job was hydraulics design for a Hole boring machine the kind they used for going through mountains for roads and trains. Conversion from Pneumatics to hydraulics... made the machine more powerful and consistant.... Then we went on to an Earthquake shaker table for UCSD... large enough to accomodate a semi truck. Of course I was only a detalier for him and provided conversion to autocad... he had some patentable designs though.

I finally got a job Working for my dad on Windmill design his bosses company was putting in windmills for the cannon Win farm in Tahachape. theirs was the first windmill design the lead the wind rather than followed the wind. Their company also worked for Hughes building heliocopter blades and they specialized in Composite materials. Bob Basso the owner of the company developed the first Composite Raquet ball raquet. Dow Corning bought him out and made him and instant milllionare.

From there i went to a Telecommunications company that built TV Stations that went into Semi Tractor trailers.... This was post Solid Gold so we also built Television post production facility that went into the Solid Gold Sound stage.... Our TV stations were for NBC Sports and we had enginnerrs that came from New York City to help with the final designs.... We girls took them out to the country and western bars and dressed them up as cowboys.... What a hoot that was. ONe was an oscar winner for developing cameras that fillmed the climb on Everest. He did the climb with his cameras as well. He was certifiable.

After that I moved to Convair. Worked on some of the last Aerospace left in town. My job was part of the Atlas Centaur Retrofit converting from Military to Commercial payloads. Some of those drawings were older than I was... VERY interesting work. All Pen and ink on mylar. While I was doing that dad was working on the original space station tooling designs....

From there I moved to working on The C 17.... Tooling for assembling the Aft one third of the airplaine. Which included the flying tail and the cargo bay door. The whole tool was the size of a foot ball field and three stories tall. Teledyne Ryan was serving as the Contractor but we were coordinating with Mc Donald Douglas at the time. I got to see prototype drawings for the first drones they ever built for the military there.

I also got to help design the work platforms for the wings on the plane. Wings in production are built as sets at the same time so they are true to each other.... Two wings fastened together by tooling They used one of the old Diragable hangers... So big they have their own weather inside. The floor had a pitch of one inch over twelve feet... So each of the twelve assembly stations had different lentght legs. We werent allowed to do a single design and put different risers on the legs .... it was a night mare of construction...

I wound up having a "discussion" with the checker on the project proving that I was right and he was wrong. At Thirty Two years old I was the first person to do this.... LLoyd hired me away from that place to work on jet engine repair designs.

Oh my that was a fun job as well. pressure tanks, Jet engine blades, Electron beam Weld chambers, Got to work for a master engineer a graduate of the institute of Mines in Colorado.... He developed a way to anneal the blades after repair and prior to final clean up.... Got to work on Chemical machining for O Ring assemblys.
This was the year I found out I was pregnant with my son.... He became the company baby... Lloyd bought Dean his first car seat. Just before He let me go.... He was a generous fellow but an ASSon occasion.

After that Aerospace was seriously gone... I hovered in place being a new single mom and working on ways to stay at home.... spent a bit of time working out of the house but didnt do well attaining contracts. Survived about a year before I took a job with a lead acid battery company.

Created designs for Batteries and the lead frames that hold the paste inside.... met alot of interesting people there.

from there I went to work on tooling for the 777. Back on the drafting table was hard for me. 60 hour weeks sometimes trying to catchup on a project. I burned out by the time the job was finished. The tool was for the crown postion on the plane.

from there worked for a physicist working in biomed for Electorporation .... A way to do gene splicing on living tissue. VERy interesting indeed. he let me go after six months and I jumped into Telecommunications again.

Worked for PCSI on CDPD equipment. Celular Digitial Packet Delivery... infrastructure... After that Worked for Qualcomm on CDMA equipment.... As well as the equipment that tracks position on Semi trucks and Trailers the Money core for the company.... This is where I began work as a manufacturing Engineer.

Also all this I did on a highschool diploma... and wherer my job got sold overseas.

so at this point I was done when I lost that job after four years I was happy to work as a cashier at Arco.

Also why I am not afraid to take on a job that i may not clearly be trained for... learned that from my dad who Was Brilliant... He took brilliant ideas from enginers and made them work.

My forte was fixing designs and or streamlining designs to make them more cost effective.

My apologies for the type os... I was typing fast and furious to get this all down. Its been a while.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Sorry you lost another one Micro, I lost one the other day that got jammed between the coop wall and the platform for the waterer. I didn't notice him there until it was too late. I think he was trying to escape the bigger roosters.

Lost a guinea that way.... got sandwiched between the coop door and some plastic hardware cloth i had up....

deb

 

[ronott1]

Ron working in San Diego Post Aerospace has been an adventure and a scramble for jobs.... A total lesson in flexibility... I have worked in many many different fields just in order to stay in town.

I started out at US Elevator in the beginning then moved to Aviation... working on the F16 doing test equipment for their hydraulics... The engineer that hired me called the big boss a dumass and he got fired... And they said take your little helper with you... so I got let go as well.

Jim Overton was famous for his hydraulic innovations and he felt guilty about loosing me a job so he took me on for a while working on his personal progects... first job was hydraulics design for a Hole boring machine the kind they used for going through mountains for roads and trains. Conversion from Pneumatics to hydraulics... made the machine more powerful and consistant.... Then we went on to an Earthquake shaker table for UCSD... large enough to accomodate a semi truck. Of course I was only a detalier for him and provided conversion to autocad... he had some patentable designs though.

I finally got a job Working for my dad on Windmill design his bosses company was putting in windmills for the cannon Win farm in Tahachape. theirs was the first windmill design the lead the wind rather than followed the wind. Their company also worked for Hughes building heliocopter blades and they specialized in Composite materials. Bob Basso the owner of the company developed the first Composite Raquet ball raquet. Dow Corning bought him out and made him and instant milllionare.

From there i went to a Telecommunications company that built TV Stations that went into Semi Tractor trailers.... This was post Solid Gold so we also built Television post production facility that went into the Solid Gold Sound stage.... Our TV stations were for NBC Sports and we had enginnerrs that came from New York City to help with the final designs.... We girls took them out to the country and western bars and dressed them up as cowboys.... What a hoot that was. ONe was an oscar winner for developing cameras that fillmed the climb on Everest. He did the climb with his cameras as well. He was certifiable.

After that I moved to Convair. Worked on some of the last Aerospace left in town. My job was part of the Atlas Centaur Retrofit converting from Military to Commercial payloads. Some of those drawings were older than I was... VERY interesting work. All Pen and ink on mylar. While I was doing that dad was working on the original space station tooling designs....

From there I moved to working on The C 17.... Tooling for assembling the Aft one third of the airplaine. Which included the flying tail and the cargo bay door. The whole tool was the size of a foot ball field and three stories tall. Teledyne Ryan was serving as the Contractor but we were coordinating with Mc Donald Douglas at the time. I got to see prototype drawings for the first drones they ever built for the military there.

I also got to help design the work platforms for the wings on the plane. Wings in production are built as sets at the same time so they are true to each other.... Two wings fastened together by tooling They used one of the old Diragable hangers... So big they have their own weather inside. The floor had a pitch of one inch over twelve feet... So each of the twelve assembly stations had different lentght legs. We werent allowed to do a single design and put different risers on the legs .... it was a night mare of construction...

I wound up having a "discussion" with the checker on the project proving that I was right and he was wrong. At Thirty Two years old I was the first person to do this.... LLoyd hired me away from that place to work on jet engine repair designs.

Oh my that was a fun job as well. pressure tanks, Jet engine blades, Electron beam Weld chambers, Got to work for a master engineer a graduate of the institute of Mines in Colorado.... He developed a way to anneal the blades after repair and prior to final clean up.... Got to work on Chemical machining for O Ring assemblys.
This was the year I found out I was pregnant with my son.... He became the company baby... Lloyd bought Dean his first car seat. Just before He let me go.... He was a generous fellow but an ASSon occasion.

After that Aerospace was seriously gone... I hovered in place being a new single mom and working on ways to stay at home.... spent a bit of time working out of the house but didnt do well attaining contracts. Survived about a year before I took a job with a lead acid battery company.

Created designs for Batteries and the lead frames that hold the paste inside.... met alot of interesting people there.

from there I went to work on tooling for the 777. Back on the drafting table was hard for me. 60 hour weeks sometimes trying to catchup on a project. I burned out by the time the job was finished. The tool was for the crown postion on the plane.

from there worked for a physicist working in biomed for Electorporation .... A way to do gene splicing on living tissue. VERy interesting indeed. he let me go after six months and I jumped into Telecommunications again.

Worked for PCSI on CDPD equipment. Celular Digitial Packet Delivery... infrastructure... After that Worked for Qualcomm on CDMA equipment.... As well as the equipment that tracks position on Semi trucks and Trailers the Money core for the company.... This is where I began work as a manufacturing Engineer.

Also all this I did on a highschool diploma... and wherer my job got sold overseas.

so at this point I was done when I lost that job after four years I was happy to work as a cashier at Arco.

Also why I am not afraid to take on a job that i may not clearly be trained for... learned that from my dad who Was Brilliant... He took brilliant ideas from enginers and made them work.

My forte was fixing designs and or streamlining designs to make them more cost effective.

My apologies for the type os... I was typing fast and furious to get this all down. Its been a while.

deb

It looks like you were getting into STEM before it was a thing!

https://www.stemwomen.net/

 

[perchie.girl]

It looks like you were getting into STEM before it was a thing!

https://www.stemwomen.net/

Probably.... I graduated in 73 worked in sweatshops till college started. Tried to get into computer science because that was what I wanted.... I was programming in fortran in highschool.... Key punch and verify days.....

The advisor put me in computing machines.... and they had me wiring up sorter with wiring like youd use in an old telephone switch board.... Hated it... I took boulean algebra on my own and loved it.

Needless to say I dropped out. No one ever told me that I could tell the advisors to go whack themselves...

Oh well.

deb

 

[ronott1]

Probably.... I graduated in 73 worked in sweatshops till college started. Tried to get into computer science because that was what I wanted.... I was programming in fortran in highschool.... Key punch and verify days.....

The advisor put me in computing machines.... and they had me wiring up sorter with wiring like youd use in an old telephone switch board.... Hated it... I took boulean algebra on my own and loved it.

Needless to say I dropped out. No one ever told me that I could tell the advisors to go whack themselves...

Oh well.

deb

Here at UC Davis, getting women into STEM is a very big deal.

I do not know if it is working since there are not that many in those fields

 

[pennyJo1960]

Well dropped 2 cords here and stacked tramadol tomorrow or when this gets me he has gone after for another load just in his truck this time said he owes it to us

 

[microchick]

Ohhhh Cap, I'm sorry. That has to be a tough thing to find, as tough as finding that rooster floating in the tub last night. Usually Z would be the first to come out of the coop and he would call the Fayoumi's outside to get their morning bread. This morning I opened the door and they just sort of stood around looking confused.

Perchie, you are amazing! All on a high school diploma. Just think of what you could have done with an engineering degree. It's a shame jobs for women then weren't like they are now. DH and I were talking about that the other day. In 1971 when I graduated from HS the main job opportunities for women are 1)teacher, 2) secretary, 3) nurse 4) mother/housewife.

Got all the laundry done and hung outside to dry. Nature is providing natural clothes drying at 27MPH. May as well take advantage of it. The pups were all beating up on Varn this afternoon. I went out to see what the big problem was other than him being a little AH and the poor little guy had his two brother laying in on him to the point that he jumped on me and tried to climb up my body in order for me to hold him. I picked him up and he just clung to me with his front legs. So I brought him in and he was my buddy this afternoon,following me around, resting with me on the sofa and being the perfect little gentleman. I'll be so glad when all of the boys are neutered and the testosterone levels drop so they can get down to business of being family and stop worrying about their pecking order.

We are waiting for one of our Amish neighbors to come by and cut the grass in our pasture for hay. We donate it every year so we don't have to mow the 6 acres other than cutting paths. It's pretty cool to watch them do the work with a team of draft horses. They use a horse drawn bar cutter along with a horse drawn rake then a tractor and baler come through to do the baling work. Plus I can go out after they get done with a bucket and collect fertilizer that the horses leave for me! Score Score!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Sorry about the lost roo but thank you for the diarrhea story. I was feeling a bit bad for myself considering I found a tick lodged in a very private location and almost required help removing it... but nothing tops 7 dogs with diarrhea.

Deb, interesting work history. My most interesting job was working for the Amish. Most disgusting was busing tables at a seafood/crab shack.

 

[trumpeting_angel]

Here at UC Davis, getting women into STEM is a very big deal.

I do not know if it is working since there are not that many in those fields

It’s really hard to be a woman in those environments. Just ask @perchie.girl ! Even when they don’t intend to, men in male-dominated fields sometimes just don’t see women as peers. Working in criminal justice and in the courts, I’ve seen changes over the years.

Once there was a threat on the defendant’s life. The court officers were trying to beef up security for the arraignment. (He had killed a child.). One suggestion floated was to get all the women and children out of the courtroom. Um, okay, but that would prohibit the judge, probation officer, prosecutor, and court psychologist (me) from being present!

Had to go to Plan B.

Don’t get me started. But that was back in the 80s; it’s better now.