Eddie Beck:  

The Past 43 Years Wow what a ride it was. I barely graduated High School and I'm relatively sure I passed only because it would be better to get rid of me rather that endure another year of my foolishness. I worked off and on throughout junior high and high school but I never had a real steady job until the summer of ‘76. on a shrimp boat. In junior high I worked for a sign painter and it quickly became apparent that there was no way I could consume enough alcohol to be proficient at either job. In the fall of ‘76 a friend and I turned résumés to just about every plant along the Ship Channel and after the hiring process finally got a job at Shell Chemical. I worked there for 33 years and was given the “golden handshake” in 2008. Kinda reminded me of graduating high school, were they just being nice or were they trying to get rid of me? In that time span I married my 1st wife in 1981 because I got the “hello daddy” phone call at work. My then wife and I had 2 children, Mary in 1981 and Bobby in 1983 which coincidentally the same year my exmother-in-law moved in with us at our Friendswood home. Things went from bad to worse eventually resulting in our se...Expand for more