Employed 7 part 7

The job at S&R was much simpler (obviously) than the job that had required
nine months of training. S&R was also 3 days on and 4 off per week, but day shift only. The problem was that l was as angry as l've ever been and as the days and weeks went by, the anger did not abate. l earned the privilege to
attend those schools and by completing them, with passing grades, l earned
the job. For my superiors to dismiss me for bringing to their attention a link that l thought had little or no promise of yielding useful traffic,was, at least
the wrong way to treat a valuable asset, but also, if he had actually listened
to that link himself (as l suggested) he might well have agreed with me.

Though l was angry for quite some time l didn't show it. The day l got the
notice of my change of job, l was boiling when l got home. Gary absorbed my blast for a bit and then gave me his blast: "Don't give them the satisfaction
of seeing you hurting from their action. And protect yourself from further grief
down the road" he said. "Act like everything is just fine. Smile some. Talk some,seem to be happy with your situation, just don't produce more than
about half the work that they expect from you...let them feel a little of the
pain". l agreed with Gary and felt very fortunate to have met him. A very smart guy with a big heart.We both  had overlooked one of the most posit-
ive aspects of that plan; l only had to endure the S&R job for about another
three weeks. This change was unexpected and somewhat alarming because
it moved me out of the operations company, which is ASA,NSA, and into
post engineering which is the service company.This might mean that l'm no
longer in ASA and could loose non-combatant status.

This time the new job is right down my alley; I'm in charge of the Drafting
Department of the engineering company, which l learn is part of ASA. For me,
things were going pretty good. l'm sorry that my time at Al's was wasted,but
l was probably a better draftsman than Russian linguist at that time and was very comfortable with the place, the work and the people. The draftsman
that l replaced had finished his tour and was leaving the army, He had acquired a gang of stuff that he didn't want to keep and he had a barracks
sale. l bought some of it including a bunch of artist's materials; lotsa tubes of
oil paints, a dozen or more brushes and a few palates. A half-dozen rolls of
4' wide canvas and a few hundred feet of mounting material. l also bought
about a dozen gallon cans of several different colors which l later used for some sign painting jobs. The artist's supplies l didn't use while in Alaska, but
l took them with me when l returned to the States.

One day, Gary and l were in Kenai when we met a lady with 2 dogs on
leashes who said she needed to give one of them away. The available
dog was a  very nice German Shepherd named Molly. we couldn't take
her but we agreed to pass the word on Molly to any one that might be 
interested.We did find an interested party and when we went to the address
of the lady she still had the dog and our prospect liked the dog.Our lady friend,Betty,, wife of Dick Dewitt and mother of 3-year-old Mark were all happy that the available dog now had a home. We noticed a nice cabin next door to
the Dewitt home, bearing a "for rent"sign. lt was their cabin, we moved from our place overlooking the inlet and moved in next to the Dewitts to a nicer
place in a better (wooded) neighborhood, and cost us $20 less than our first
place and next-door to the best neighbors ever.