I don't post much. I've been working in the oil field for 20+ yrs. I finally said "enough" recently and took a teaching position as a welding teacher at the same high school that I graduated from. It was a pay cut, but with my two sons getting older, and us both working, they just had too much unsupervised time to themselves. I know what I would've done when I was 13 if I were home alone all summer long, and it drove me nuts. So after a lot of consideration with the wife I took the job. Teaching allows me to be home when my boys are home.
Come to find out I love it!! I never in a million years thought that I would be teaching high school kids, but I was once in the same desks, in the same building, in the same shops, hating school just as they do, and I can totally relate to all of their "behavior problems" as the other teachers have labeled them as.
Anyways, so I'm off for a week for Thanksgiving and I start cleaning the shop, and my son asks if we can get the Tacoma running. This will be his truck when he turns 16 (he's 13 now). It jumped time a while back and I've been needing to install the new belt, so I said sure, but you're doing it.
So he's wrenching and says "the TV shows make this look so easy"[emoji16][emoji16]. I told him "wait until you're doing this all night so that you can make it to work in the morning"!! Good stuff.
I would never have had the time to do this if I were still working on oil rigs, and to be honest, my oldest son and I have never been able to get along long enough to accomplish much, so this has been a blessing in disguise. Sometimes the man upstairs puts something in your path that doesn't seem to make any sense on the surface. Take a closer look and it might be just what you were looking for.
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Come to find out I love it!! I never in a million years thought that I would be teaching high school kids, but I was once in the same desks, in the same building, in the same shops, hating school just as they do, and I can totally relate to all of their "behavior problems" as the other teachers have labeled them as.
Anyways, so I'm off for a week for Thanksgiving and I start cleaning the shop, and my son asks if we can get the Tacoma running. This will be his truck when he turns 16 (he's 13 now). It jumped time a while back and I've been needing to install the new belt, so I said sure, but you're doing it.
So he's wrenching and says "the TV shows make this look so easy"[emoji16][emoji16]. I told him "wait until you're doing this all night so that you can make it to work in the morning"!! Good stuff.
I would never have had the time to do this if I were still working on oil rigs, and to be honest, my oldest son and I have never been able to get along long enough to accomplish much, so this has been a blessing in disguise. Sometimes the man upstairs puts something in your path that doesn't seem to make any sense on the surface. Take a closer look and it might be just what you were looking for.
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