Gerald Gorski:  

Life This is my biography, as of August19,2023. After graduating from Lincoln High School in June 1963, I started working in a machine shop in Madison Heights, Michigan. I worked there for almost 6 months. I saw many of my friends and neighbors got drafted, so I enlisted in the United States Navy on January 31, 1964 for four years. I was in during the Vietnam War. I was a Non-Commissioned 3rd Class Petty Officer and my job was a Machinery Repairman on a Destroyer named U.S.S. William M. Wood DD715 out of Norfolk, Virginia. . It was my earlier years in the Metal Shop at Lincoln High School, that made me continue in this trade. After my enlistment on January 31, 1968, I attended Macomb County Community College and worked part time as a bartender for the Roostertail in Downtown Detroit. I was also hired my first month home by the S.S. Kresge company, which later became the Kmart Corporation on March 18, 1968. I was going to Macomb and working as a part time bartender and working full time for the Kresge Company. I was burning the candle at both ends but you can do that, when you are young and single. I started in the Management Training Program after three months I rose to become a Kresge Store Manager and eventually a Kmart Store Manager. I managed two Kresge stores and two Kmart stores, All of them were in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. After store management, I worked at the Kmart Distribution Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana for 8 years. I was a Merchandise Supervisor for rebuying merchandise for 12 distribution centers. I was transferred in 1991 to the Kmart Headquarters in Troy, Michigan. I worked at the Kmart Headquarters and had many upward positions. My last position was a Buyer for Pet Food and Pet Supplies. Kmart was filing for bankruptsy in January 2002, so after almost 33 years with Kmart, I took a Severance package and I retired in 2000. I took a year off and worked on my house and became bored, so I went to work for the Superpetz Company in 2001. I retired as a Store Director in Westland, Michigan in 2007. I stayed in the pet business because I love pets and was a Pet Buyer for Kmart. Superpetz has been very good to me. I divorced in 1987. I lived in Royal Oak Michigan for 15 years. I now live n Southfield, Michigan for the past 10 years. I graduated from Macomb Community College with...Expand for more