Globusz^® Publishing 

After getting out the Navy, I returned back to the farm. I had no real idea of what I would do with my life at that point. The farm was not the place for me anymore. I went to work at a local factory as a shop worker. I was an automatic tig welder for making underwater mines for the navy. Somehow I saw it as a dead end job. I was looking for more of a challenging job. During my time with this company, I also learned machining as lathes, drills and other types of welding.

One day the company posted a notice they wanted to find some one to learn time study and work in the industrial engineering dept. I knew what that meant since one of them had taken time studies on my work. I applied for the position. After a simple test, I was informed that an interview was set up for me. I seemed to satisfy the industrial engineering chief. I was told I would be attending the Industrial Engineering College in Chicago at company expense. This was mostly on weekends and a few evenings during the week. I was on my way to be a full fledge Industrial Engineer.

After working for the company as a time study engineer, I wanted to move up for more detail work as an engineer. This company did not have that opportunity available for that. I left them and moved to Rockford, Illinois and worked for a larger corporation and took a position in their industrial engineering department. Now I was learning more about Manufacturing Engineering and was out of the time study area.

When Barber-Coleman Company in Rockford first hired me; I was advised that there was a possible labor strike coming. There was one! Since I was an engineer and staff, I still had to come to work. Driving my car between hundreds of striking employees to get into the gate was not fun. Since I was also an experienced lathe operator, I did some manufacturing and the unions hated me for that when they found out. One day a copy of the unions newsletter was posted on the bulletin board and a article telling about the newest Industrial engineer who was forcing labor to work harder than standard, it had my name on it! That was their revenge for me running production machines.

This allowed me to gain knowledge about all manufacturing processes and labor management. During this time I attended the Rock Valley College in Rockford, Illinois and pursue a degree in Business Administration. All this was a great time for me. Now I had two Bachelors Degrees. I was also pursuing a degree in Philosophy of Science as a minor. Again you can read some of the books I have published on line but merely putting my name in a search engine and they are free to read.

While living in Rockford, the old urges to do something sexually with another man were pursuing me. I found myself going to the local gay bar. I was somewhat nervous and unsure about going into one, but got the courage to do it. Once I met a guy about my age and we sort of hit it off as friends. One thing led to another and one night I found all about gay sex! We became what it is called gay lovers at that time. I still had the urge to have sex with girls, but really had to suppress it. We lasted as a pair for two years before breaking up. I have never had a gay lover since. Most of my sexual urges are hetrosexual now.

To many all this can mean many things. The truth I learned by all my studies on religions and human societies was that this is neither unnatural or unusual and that it is not a choice. My studies in philosophy of science opened my mind to all the man made stigmas placed against this and other sexual parts of human science. Again this is covered in some of my books.

Finally I wanted to move west and a opportunity allowed my to move to Arizona. I stayed in Phoenix for about two years and worked for a professional employment agency for job placement of professional engineers. I liked Phoenix, but did find an opportunity in California and took it. Before moving away from Phoenix, I had made a lot of good friends. Most were gay men but some straight ones too. During the Christmas season, we bought a permit to chop down a wild Christmas tree in the Kibab forest near Flagstaff. Well if six drunken guys go to find and chop down a Christmas tree, you can imagine the results! By the time we sobered up and got back to Phoenix, we scrapped it and bought one in a lot! It was a horrible looking tree! Two of the guys’ wives never let us live that down.

Living in Arizona for almost three years was really ok, but not a good place for me as an industrial engineer. I loved going to Brisbane, Sedona and Flagstaff on weekends. The big summer fun was tubing on the Verdi and Salt River. That was with a truck tire interludes as floats and just drifting down the river and enjoying it with hundreds of others doing the same thing. This was a two-hour floating trip from starting point to the ending point. We always had a car tire interlude with the beer cooler full of beer and soft drinks for our group. A lot of people liked to do this naked and enjoy the sun, I did it naked once and managed to get bad sunburn! Sedona had a special place in its river called slide rock. It was a natural carved slide at the high part of the river and running about one hundred feet into a pool of water at the end. It was worn smooth from years of the river water running down the rock and I wore out some cut off jeans sliding down it many times. It was finally closed due to too many people using it and it was Sedona’s water supply. Finally I moved to California.

Over the time I worked as an Industrial/Manufacturing Engineer, I had specialized in estimating and bidding contracts to manufacture products for factories. This requires a lot of knowledge on manufacturing processes, metallurgy, labor management and finishing processes for both metal and plastic products. One needed to know plant layout, warehouse layout and management, purchasing and how to establish a bidding price for gaining new jobs for the company. It was not easy and very responsible to make a profit or even a loss if done wrong. I never low bided and lost on any jobs I quoted. Now I was doing a very challenging and satisfying occupation.

My final position as an engineer was with a company involved with pre stressed and pre cast concrete buildings. I quickly learned all the details of these two products and became the quality control manager for the company at a site in northern California in the bay area. The largest project I worked on in the early 1980's was the maximum-security prison at Folsom, California. I was the company representative during the construction to assure our company was not charged for errors made by others who might want to claim our products were at fault. It was a very interesting position. This required knowing how to deal with unions and other management for other contractors in any related industry involved with the construction. Some times it got very heated, but I never lost on any arguments of who was at fault. I was always honest and never tried to ram facts down anyone’s throat. I guess I would not make a good politician!

During this time I was to discover that I was hiv+. That was bad news since most people were dying fast after being diagnosed. I did not worry about it and decided to take care of my health and do whatever was needed to continue with a good life. I am not sure exactly how or who gave me the virus. I was dating more females at that time then males. I could not ask or find out if anyone had been infected by sexual contact. I have been very fortunate and still in good health and under control after all these years on this.