By age 17, mariner had a very social life. His mainstay was league football and going to jitterbug dances. He was a serious art major in his high school, which allowed students to select majors very much like colleges do. He chose painting art.

Job 5 was as a water safety life guard at a church camp. These were fun days. It was there that mariner made fresh Blue Crab his favorite meal.

Mariner’s high school class graduated during this period. It was time for him to step into the real world of work.  He joined the local semipro football team and simultaneously was hired by a large department store to be an illustrator in the advertising department, establishing job 6. What he remembers best and most were the lunchtimes spent across the street in a bowling alley with three cronies from the department store. A game called duckpins was played ( a version of bowling called ‘two-ball, nine-no-count’); If the first two balls didn’t score 9 pins, that frame became zero.

Job 7 – Just months later an advertising firm asked mariner to come with them – for a much better salary.

Now, about you folks. New in the adult market place? What new interests entered your life? Did you discover a new, non-family or non-local set of people that you associated with? Did you get married? Where did you go on your first self paid vacation? Name your mayor when you took your first ‘adult’ job. Name the restaurant where you spent lunch.

Ancient Mariner