I was fresh out of college with my third degree, this time in something I could get a job with - industrial technology. So when I got my real, professional job as a factory technical trainer, I was rarin' to go. "You know how to solder?" demanded my new boss, the chief industrial engineer. He was talking about soldering small electrical controls - thermostats, transformers, limits, valves, printed circuit boards - not pipe joints. "Uh, well, no I don't." There sure weren't any college courses in that. And I hadn't had to solder in my two years on night shift assembly in the terminal strip and fuse block factory. "Well, you better learn," he responded, "because you're the solder trainer. The guy who's been teaching wants out of it. He's a time study guy. You're the trainer now, so it's your baby."
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