Gerald Kerber:  

I did pretty much every job you could do from a very young age for not much money all the way up to high school, then joined the US Navy as an Electronic Warfare Technician for 6 good years, and even sometimes when I was at lower ranks and didn’t make much money again, so would work some part time jobs while we were in port to make a little extra money to support my family at the time! We lived in some terrible rentals filled with either flees or cockroaches! I couldn’t even afford to always change the oil filter when I changed the oil in our vehicle! That just made me want to work harder and study more so I would be more successful no matter what ship I was on! It was my job to protect the whole crew on the ship on both ships i served on! Once I got out of the Navy I worked at Adolph Coors Brewery in production stacking layer after layer of circuit boards to be fired in the kiln, I was told I probably would have been hired full time for 7.85$ an hour and then I decided I would try to work Christmas time at UPS as only a Christmas higher and would be laid off when I finished delivering my last package on December 24th! I had to find another job right away so I worked for an Oil Refinery as an Oil Blender for another low wage starting at 7.55$ an hour, I tried to make our work area look nice and clean always! I worked gr...Expand for more