And in the Beginning,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth, And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

IF you  do not count delivering newspapers, shoveling snow, mowing lawns, raking leaves,, etc,,, then the The 1st job I was ever hired to do was in a shoe store. It was down town  Poughkeepsie,  I do not remember the name of the place, but it was near Tee Pee Dashery.  I could stock shelves and clean up ,, that sorts stuff ,, not sell shoes... Now that's not the Story with that job,, the story is that I never worked at that Shoe store. On the way home from getting that job,,,  I stopped in to see a friend of mine at a Gas station on Raymond Ave - a Chevron station across the street from Frivolous Sal's bar... the Station was right about where Zimmers jewelers is today, and although  I was just there to say hello,,the owenr of the place told me that the kid he had pumping gas quit that day and was I interested in working after school and Saturdays,,,,  I'd be pumping gas , running the Car wash, cleaning the bays,  that sorta stuff.  I worked for Dave Clossen for about 2 years... and never even went back to the Shoe store !  I had jobs in Tire and Auto places,  half assed mechanic,,, doing breaks, and shocks, front end work,,,  and eventually moved up (if you think so) to managing those places in Wappingers, Fishkill , New City, Montvale, Shrub Oak,,, until  1983 

I joined  IBM - and between them for 32 years and GLOBALFOUNDRIES the past 2 ,, I have been here  34 years,,,, a Life time...  my life time.....my  plan was to really retire at the end of 2017,,,, but GF offered a buy out ,,, lots of Salary , and Benes, to go ,, literally NOW., gone here by the 25th,,,, Could not pass it up  !   

Looks now like I will be unemployed somewhere between 24 and 48 hours,,,, I don't wanna tip my hand,, however you can probably find me at my next high tech job of Selling Ice and Water, and doing general Marina chores starting Wednesday or Thursday working for NY state..
I will say that as Cynical as I am ,,, so far - this whole thing could not have worked out more in my favor if I scripted it .