I started as a hyster driver, then study for while and passed the test for inspection, then study some more and became a special inspector about that time I went in 50 % on a archery and muzzleloading shop study some more [off the job under an old german gunsmith] started building some varmit rifles and then some hawken rifles about that time I started chairing the quality committee after about 12 more years I retired from Deere sold my half of the shop and started to do some other things like work on a volunteer ambulance and be an emergency manager which I quit when my wife of 44 yearsgot cancer after she had been gone for a yearI found a lady I like in AR and married her and moved from IL to AR. I have been retired since 1991 and dont do much except shoot and hunt and fish and master gardener. I liked almost all my jobs but any more I not sure how I ever found time to work. Lee