I called on an ad in the newspaper the day after I graduated from high school and was asked to come in for an interview to work for a hotel. It lasted about 5 minutes and I got hired for that summer. At the end of summer I left for college.
The next spring, I was asked by our local fire chief if I wanted to work as summer help as a fire fighter. I accepted and worked the next two summers in that position. Then the fire district decided that they would hire 2 guys to work full time 5 days a week to fill in when most of the volunteers were at work themselves. I was asked if I wanted the job, and since I was short on money for college, I took the job. I fully expected that I would get drafted during that year, but they didn"t get up to my draft lottery number. So I worked in that job for a year, but found it to be really boring. We mostly just sat in the fire station and read, played cards or watched TV. Not the life I wanted, so the following fall, I went back to college. I then worked as a summer fire fighter the next two summers.
By this time I was a senior in college. A friend of mine urged me to take the civil service exam to be a deputy sheriff, as he believed that the county would hire quite a few new men for Expo 74. Apparently I did very well on the exam, because I was near the top of the civil service list, with no veteran preference points. I was called in for an interview, which lasted several hours. Then I was subjected to a very comprehensive physical examination at a doctor"s office. On another day, after being asked every question I could think of and a whole bunch of questions I never would have imagined, I took and passed a polygraph examination. After all this, I was called to work a couple of months later. At first, I was put in a training car with a coach who taught me the basics, tested my progress and who made a recommendation as to whether or not I should be retained. I then attended a 4 week mini academy, as there was not time or space for our group to attend the full academy before we were needed to bolster up the numbers during the World"s Fair. I worked through that year in Patrol and was finally sent to the full academy the next spring. It was hard work and very competitive, but I made it through, as well as passing my probation.
I worked in Patrol for 5 years and then got a civil service promotion to Detective. I worked various assignments over the years and really enjoyed the various investigations I worked. I stayed 19 years as a detective.
The last few years I worked investigations, I started being more and more afflicted with what was finally diagnosed as Meniere"s Disease. I became functionally deaf in my left ear, my ears rang loudly all the time, and worst of all, I started having episodes of vertigo. The vertigo episodes seemed to come at the worst possible times, when I was under unusual stress, and seemed to come more often. At first the department came up with a job that mostly kept me at my desk, but after a year or so, I decided that it was time to put in for a disability retirement, since I could no longer be reliable and might get myself or my partner hurt when I was unable to act due to the vertigo.
So I retired, and have now been retired 15 years. I never tried to get another job, because I still have the same problems with the Meniere"s. Lately I have been losing the hearing in my right ear.
On my good days, I am not too bad off. I can usually drive just fine, as I can feel a vertigo episode coming on. But it sure hasn"t been the life I expected for the last half of my productive years. I thank God for the pension I get!
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