Worked for Ralston Foods ( Previously Ralston Purina) for 36 years as a electrical maintenance man in a huge plant making breakfast cereal. The previous 8 years I worked as a forklift technician for United Technologies making electro-mechanical switches before it moved to Mexico. The last ten years at Ralston, I was also the Union President of UE Local 718 ( United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America )
43 years in a factory was enough for me. The Union had an early buyout that included free health coverage for myself and wife, so I exited a little early ...