Richard Hull:
CLASS OF 1972
South Hagerstown High SchoolClass of 1972
Hagerstown, MD
Heritage AcademyClass of 1978
Hagerstown, MD
North Hagerstown High SchoolClass of 1975
Hagerstown, MD
Richard's Story
Hi all! Some of you have asked me to share a little about myself. So here goes:
After high school I got married. Had three boys and got divorced. It seemed about that quickly, too. Anyway, I am currently married to my second wife. I have two step-children. None of the children live at home, they are all grown. I have three grandchildren.
I worked at one job for almost ten years from 1974 to 1984 and then got laid off. It took me about seven or eight months to find another full-time job so I worked part-time. After getting laid off I attended Control Data Institute in WV and got a Certificate of Completion in Computer Repair and Microprocessing Techniques. It was during this schooling that I started working a full-time temporary job while still working part-time and going to Control Data. My day ran from 6 a.m. to 1 a.m. five days a week and I worked at my part-time job 8 hours on Saturday. I did that for six months until I graduated from Control Data. It was during this time that my first marriage fell apart.
I took a 2 month leave of absence in the middle of my course at Control Data to try to salvage my marriage. Sad to say i...Expand for more
t didn't work. The marriage failed anyway. But because of this leave of absence I was never able to complete the job search portion of the class, though I did complete the class work, and was able to graduate. But never got a job in the computer field.
The full-time temporary eventually turned into a full-time permanent job and I was there 22 years.
In Feburary 2006 I injured my knee exercising at home and to make a long story short have had two knee surgeries. My company's disability policy was that after you were on long-term disability for 60 days you were terminated so in August 2007, after 22 years of service, they terminated me. I am still on disability which they are currently re-evaluating. In the mean time, they are sending me to Hagerstown Community College for Information Technology in the hopes of training me for a new career. I have been told by the surgeon that my knee will never be right and I cannot go back to the type of work I was doing.
So that's it in a nut shell. Not all that exciting except for one thing. And this is the best part:
In March of 1979 I accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as my personal Savior.
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