Oral History Interview with James Doig, May 13, 2004 Page: 21

                                
Mr. Metzler:
Mr. Doig:
Mr. Metzler:
Mr. Doig:

out of work for...getting unemployment for...a while and...I kept telling them
at the unemployment office that I wanted to be a draftsman, and they says,
"Well, you know, how can you be a draftsman?" And I said, "Well, I was...I
did some drafting in high school and I enjoyed it." And I...and he says, "Well,
we don't have any openings, you know?" And they kept telling me that
and...this woman evidently heard me complain about that and she says, "I've
got a...a nephew that's a draftsman and maybe he could help you." Well, she
gave me the number and I went over and they hired me. And I'd been getting a
couple of dollars an hour, well, I think...I think I was getting two and a half
dollars an hour at the time, well he cut me down to a dollar an hour. And I said,
"Boy, I don't know if I can work for a dollar an hour." He says, "I'll tell you
what," he says, "if you do alright," he says, "I'll give you a raise. Every week
I'll give you a dime a week until you...we get you up...where you belong." So
it worked. I...I was on the board...designing work for...ten years after that
and...and I wound up...in a welding company and went to work for a friend of
mine, and I worked for him for thirty-nine years. And he finally threw me out
when I was seventy-four.
(Laughter), and the rest is history as they say.

Yes.
Okay. Well, is there...anything else you'd like to take the opportunity to...add
to this...discussion so that we...?
Ah, I don't think so; I think that...pretty well covers it...unless you can think of
anything. I...to me, I think...we pretty well rounded it out.

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