I worked for McDonnell Douglas, St. Louis, in the 60s as a repair mechanic on the F4 Phantoms in final assembly. I then moved to Torrance California and worked in fabrication for the DC-10. After that I moved back to St. Louis and became a tool design engineer working in the space program as well as the MD11 and other programs. In those days you had to go where the work went. I finally moved back to California and decided to try something else because I was tired of moving. I went into retail and was able to work myself up to managing a major retail store. After 17 years they decided to close so here I go again. I took a mechanics position in Long Beach working on spare parts. Very humbling after being an upper level manager but honestly I enjoyed not having all of that pressure. As luck would have it I applied for and was able to get an entry level management position in the transportation and logistics sector. I transferred to the C-17 Transport plane Division as it was just starting the (T1) test aircraft. I was able to stay with that program for 26 years and finally retired with about 13 production aircraft to go. I wound up managing their entire Transportation organization, in Long Beach. including trucking, rail, all loading, unloading equipment and air transport including the Guppy and Antenov. McDonnell Douglas and Boeing were very good to me. Lots of opportunity and education if you worked hard. I do miss it sometimes, it gets in your blood like automobiles.