I come from a fairly large family with brothers and sisters that do all kinds of things and have lived in all kinds of places. As a kid I did not enjoy having so many siblings, I was not a very happy child, lonely as can be, even with all those other kids around.
Now that I am older I am grateful for each and every one of them. I honestly don’t know what I would have done without them all. Each one has assisted me in one disaster or another in some way or another. And I in turn will do anything that I can for them when they are in need.
Hubby comes from a large family also, it is unfortunate that they are not as close to each other as mine are, and are not always willing to come to each others aid when needed, such a shame because they each have so many talents and skills to offer also. But we were raised that family always comes first and they take care of each other no matter what.
My family has a plumber, a car mechanic, an electrician, a construction worker, a heating & air conditioning specialist, a writer, an office worker, a computer whiz, an engineer, a tax preparer, a car sales person, a school bus driver, a package & shipping specialist and the list goes on as they all move around in their careers and locations. Each and everyone would be there for me if I needed them, gotta love it!
One of my younger brothers has been incarcerated for the past 15 years and has just now been released and has been looking for work since his release. He is staying with another brother for a while until he can get back on his feet, which my take some time. It isn’t easy for someone who has been locked up to get back in the swing of things, it takes time and patience. Finding employment has been one of the biggest challenges for him, but things are looking up for him, I just got an email from him telling me all of the things that he has been up to since his release, which was right before Halloween. The family had a really nice Thanksgiving holiday this year with him being home, where he belongs, once again.
In his latest email he was telling me that he has finally landed a job in the field that he was in before everything went haywire 15 years ago. He had worked in industrial electronics/construction and was getting really good in that field, but a lot of things have changed in that field in that amount of time so he needed to be refreshed in it all before he could get back into it. So he took some classes, did good in them (of course, he is a very smart guy) and then started looking for work.
He finally has landed a job at a company, Zycon. It seems that Zycon is an industrial directory. Engineers, contractors, industrial companies, etc. can use this directory to find manufacturers and distributors of the industrial products and services they need. He was going on about grommets, blowers, flow meters, quad rings, lock pins, pneumatic cylinders things like that are so foreign to me, but are second nature to him of course. Of course I checked out their web-site www.zycon.com and boy was I over my head on that site, but it seemed to be a good place to find things that one would need in that field.
I’m so glad that they are giving him this opportunity, with his record and everything, I hope that they treat him well and give him the respect that he deserves and needs at this point in his life. I wish him luck and look forward to getting more of this kinds of positive emails from him more often.