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"I started off as an apprentice elec with GT Ranby at 15, money was very poor, stayed there until I was 16 and a bit and saw an ad for the NCB, they wanted apprentices at 8 quid a week starting pay... Great training and pay, but as I approached 21, pay stunk for craftsmen, so once I'd completed my apprenticeship, I left to work as an electrical fitter, overhauling electric motors for J.Jones. I earned the same pay as I was getting at Cotgrave Colliery, but was on regular days, didn't have to crawl all shift to do my job and a far safer workshop. \nI started chasing money, so worked for two other rewind shops as an elec fitter, Arco, then Wilson Ford. \nI ended up with Beeston Boiler Co down Beeston as a regular nightshift elec on their automatic foundry plant, but the missus didn't like me working nights. \nEnded up at British Gypsum at their East Leake mine as a mine electrician, good pay but loads of overtime that was hard to get out of. \nNext was shift electrician underground at Cleveland Potash's Boulby Mine in North Yorks, loved it there, very very hot mine, but got acclimatised, I called it my second apprenticship, honed my skills and made me a far better electrician. \nProblem with Boulby was we were always understaffed, so overtime was endless, covering absenteism, holidays and sickness, the Missus soon got fed up with me living at work and we parted company. \nI now was single again and decided to make a new start, Australia here I come!! Took me well over a year to obtain a visa, but was well worth the wait. \nI started at a tin mine as an electrician in Tasmania, made loads of friends, but the climate resembled the UK's, wet, damp and cold, so moved north to NSW where I worked as a colliery electrician at Wongawilli Colliery just south of Wollongong. Beautiful area, great beaches, great white sharks, and other nasties in the ocean...LOL \nGreener pastures were calling me, so moved to the western coalfield of NSW, Angus Place colliery, I was employed as an electrician on shifts, landed up being appointed Leading Hand Electrician, (Chargehand). Good money, good working conditions and a great set of lads I worked with. \nLeft Oz in 89, not been employed by anyone since moving stateside. Was too busy at the beginning refurbishing the wife's house in Sacramento, did odd jobs for her employer. \nThen we moved to a house on a few acres in the Sierra Foothills, I ended up being a goat farmer. \nMoved to Missouri some 16 years back now where I'm retired...Yeah right, work harder than I ever did down the pits.. \nBeen a good life on the whole, not regretted very much and would do it all the same given the chance. \n"
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