More Summer Jobs

My summer jobs in 1962, 63 and 64 were arranged through my Dad. Mobil Chemical, where daddy worked, agreed to provide contract work for employees’ sons during the summer break. I think there were two purposes behind this program. One was to subsidize employees whose sons were college bound. The second was to show those young men what crappy jobs were like for those without college degrees.

Side trip: This shows how sexist our society was even as late as the late 50’s. There were, to my knowledge, no jobs provided for college bound girls. Yuck!!

There were about 12 of us and we worked for a labor contractor, Fluor Construction. We worked for the painter group and our job was to scrape the rust and corrosion off of pipes and then clean them up for the painters.

There was a lot of horsing around and that did not please the paint foreman or the Mobil dads.