At this stage mariner’s job history is in a holding pattern. He continued to get Federal Dept. of Corrections contracts; he had another half dozen (Jobs 19-25) which encompassed beach parties in Georgia, racial discrimination against his team in Alabama and designing a jail in New Mexico. In between he took classes in computer science.
Eventually, he was hired by a large insurance firm as supervisor of a team of coders (Job 26). If mariner ever had a standard career job.this was it. How does that song go, working 9 to5 . . until a few years later when a new CEO took over and gutted the COBOL coder teams.
It turns out there was special job fair in town. He was selected to help set up an administrative information process for Taiwan’s first home-built fighter jet (Job 27).
So, readers, Have you ever worked out-of-US before? What stresses were put on family life? Have you ever worked on the road like a long haul truck driver? What changed in your ego, being separated from the home tribe?
Ancient Mariner
I can’t begin to compete with the Skipper. I’ve only held four jobs in my life (or five if you count three years in the US Army). Camp Counselor, Assistant in Anthropology Lab, Linguist, and Assistant to Archivist at Univ. of Maryland. One of those jobs was for 35 years.