Episode 4 - Career

In this episode, Grandpa discusses his career choice and employment in early adulthood. His first jobs included engineer work with refrigeration and manufacturing, but an unexpected turn led him to a GS position working on aircraft equipment at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. Some of his duties included analysis on adverse events and creating reports notating what went wrong in these incidents, and how to better fix it for the future. Grandpa describes the creative freedom given to engineers at the time to explore new solutions for things like solar panels, space travel and the like that he enjoyed being a part of. Lastly, he touches on the top secret work he did for the US government as part of a classified foreign intelligence program. 

 

Special thanks to Monica Giorgio for writing out show notes, and to Kevin Farkas for audio engineering.