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Re: why why I can...?
Posted by nick237 at 12/31/2000 11:32 PM EST
Engineer on team #237, sie h2o bots, from Watertown high school ct and sieman co.
In Reply to: why why why...?
Posted by Ken Leung on 12/30/2000 10:05 PM EST:
I Often wondered that my self......... As a full time Wedding Photographer im probably the least likly to be interested in Robotics and F.I.R.S.T. within our team but I was`nt born a Wedding Photographer.
At the age of 15 way back when T.V. was only 2 channels and gas was 18c a gallon The Headmaster ( principle ) of my London England School asked ( told ) me to leave and not reaturn. He told me education was a waste on me and that I would be better off sweeping the streets.
You see I had an authority complex and concidered all OLD people 'anyone older than me' stupid.
The one thing I could not except was the thought of being a looser. I got a job at a furniture factory where I made very cheap mass produced house hold furniture, I hated it and the next week went looking for another job.
I spent a year going from job to job and wont bore you all with some of the meanial tasks that I took.
The one thing I had though as a kid growing up in England that still showed all the signs of the end of the 2nd World war was the gift of the gab. That meant I could charm the tail off a horse.
Any time I went for a job interview I told the boss I was an expert in what ever they were looking for. I was the biggest liar in London. In 1965 I got a job working with a company that was heavy into Research and Development of new ideas. They had a small tool room and one man working it. During the lunch breaks he would show me how some of the equipment worked and even let me make personal usefull articles like 'knuckle dusters' on them.
He had been working on a job and had become ill, the job had to be done so I volunteered to finish it. The boss who had no idea of what went on in the factory told me to go ahead?
I got the job done and the tool room guy called pete returned a week later. After that I was offered an aprentice possition but I had to go back to school in order to get the aprenticeship. It was the best thing I ever did and education became fun and not a drag.
Since then I have taken my education and gift of gab and traveled all over the world. I have been to nearly every country there is and a few that are now gone but with out that day back in 1965 when I said 'I CAN' I may not be here today.
In those days I was immortal and the world was an $@#$@#$@#, adults were put on this world to agravate me, and sharing was 'ME ME ME'.
A man called pete Gave me my chance, he could see the value in my youth, to me he reminds me of Dean and his dream.
F.I.R.S.T. is my way of saying Thanks for the chance with the students at our High School. EVERY ONE DESERVES THAT CHANCE.
nick237.
P.S. im a photographer because of all my travels and the job pays well, im my own boss too.
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