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Yeah Jim, I went to school in Beaumont at Lamar. I had gone to school in Victoria for a couple years and took a couple years off. Then I went to Beaumont to start school there because I had friends going there. I was going to sign up for academic courses and finish my degree and I got talked into checking out the Diesel School on the vocational campus. I never went back to the main campus and got my Associate of Applied Science degree in Diesel Engine Technology. I had worked in the Marine field in engine rooms going through college so I gave it a whirl. I graduated 2nd in the class. I worked at a truck shop for awhile thinking it was like the marine field where there were upward opportunities until I figured out that working in truck shops wasn't like marine work and I would be a blue collar hourly man making just above minimum wage for the rest of my life. So I went back to work in the marine field albeit making more money, until I got an opportunity to go to work around home at Union Carbide as an operator where I retired after 28 years. I did go back and get my academic degree later in life in Legal Studies. I feel I had a well rounded education. But I never moved back to the Golden Triangle area. I remember going through Dayton and Liberty on my way to see my first wife at Huntsville when she was going to Sam Houston. There was a speed
trap and they got me for a ticket one morning. There was a hill and right at the top of that hill just far enough down the road where you couldn't see it from the bottom was a drastically reduced speed sign with a cop about 100 feet down the road. I wanted to tell the cop what I thought but Tom T Hall's song about spending a week in a country jail was fresh on my mind so I shut my mouth. I never went through Dayton and Liberty again. I went 20 miles out of the way to avoid it.