Jobs before the military?

I worked at a Taco Bell in San Diego. I still love that place.

I was a diesel mechanic when I joined the Army Reserve. Then I went to be a professional guide in the wilderness area in Idaho. Later I moved to Denmark and shoe horses.

I was doing construction work, tying steel (rodbuster), driving 55 miles to work each way living in NC; 4 days a week-10 hours a day. Great Job, great pay in Florence SC. But like many a young Soldier we've all known (or been), it was the "not at work" time where I found the time to often somehow find myself in kind of trouble. Never serious, (no bank robbing, no selling drugs, etc); Usually in some kind of scrape or another.

However, thanks to Police Chief Hammonds (our one man Town Police Dept), had a long talk with me at 2AM on a Sunday morning...at 10AM I was talking to the Army Recuriter and at 2PM I was on the bus to the Raliegh NC MEPS. At 12 midnight I stepped of the train in Columbia, SC, with the Ft. Jackson Welcome Mat out and greeted by several Drill Sergeants (with Attention Deficent Disorder) who needed to be on Ridlin. Dec 221, 1973.