[BC] great story

[Timothy West]

>  I told him if he was still thinking like that in 10 years, we'd  
> want to talk to him about a job!

Jeff, that was great! I hope there are a lot more like him out there.

You know how kids say want they wanna be when they grew up? I had no  
idea, but when I was about 8 I was playing over at a neighbors house  
whose big brother happened to be a ham. I took one look at the gear  
on the desk and I knew that whatever this cat was doing was what I  
wanted to do too. The details about the fact that it was only a hobby  
didn't concern me at the time of course. Too young to make the  
connections.

I didn't know it was a only a hobby at that age, but I did know that  
thats I wanted to do. never got into radio proper as a way to make a  
living, but I did manage to get a lot of other jobs that were pretty  
helpful in training me by default along the way to fix electronic  
stuff from tubes to SMT.

I always loved repair work, because it generally is not open to  
anyone else's opinion. the thing either works, or it doesn't. There's  
only so much the big boss-man can say about your work, and unlike  
some other types of work, it's not that open to a lot of superfluous  
nit picking.  :D

  Loved the story. There is hope! :D

TW