Ronald Kober, Jr.:
CLASS OF 1987
Berwick High SchoolClass of 1987
Berwick, LA
Youngs Memorial Vocational Technical CollegeClass of 1996
Morgan city, LA
Nicholls State UniversityClass of 1991
Thibodaux, LA
Berwick Junior High SchoolClass of 1983
Berwick, LA
Bayou Vista Elementary SchoolClass of 1981
Morgan city, LA
Ronald's Story
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After school, I was kind of aimless at first... not really knowing what I wanted to do with my life. I took courses in Business Administration and Electrical Engineering, then finally Drafting & Design, which I loved.
I was hired at a local ship fabrication yard and drew blueprints of the hull structure of a large casino boat that was being built at the time. After a few months, I was offered a better job at an offshore fabrication yard, and took it immediately. I drew structural blueprints of the submerged sections of oil rigs. I worked there for a couple years before being laid off due to the oil industry crashing.
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out a month later, I began working at a design firm in Lafayette doing work similar to what I had been doing before. That lasted approximately a year before a few of us there were laid off due to the further decline of the oil industry.
The next few months were pretty lean times, as no one was hiring draftsmen. I finally gave up on finding work as a draftsman, and I took a job at a local sign company. I worked there for 23 years, designing many of the signs around the area and offshore.
Recently, I was made aware of a drafting position at a local fabrication yard, and I took it. After 26 years I am back at my original profession!
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