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Show ROBERT THAYER D B R 20 2 ROB: And they ushered me out. Then I came back and I w nt back to w rk with my uncle. My granddad had died during the war and I went back to work with my uncle in the construction business. But by then, the family hadn't kept the business up and the trucks and everything were in disrepair. They had had them out to Dugway to the military installation and they'd run them right to the ground. He hadn't given them the supervision that they should have had, and I stayed with that for about a year, and then I realized that I used up nearly all my money that I had saved during the war. While I was overseas I just kept out a minimum amount for myself and sent the rest back, and my wife was working for Utah Oil so she was able to maintain herself. We moved back into her family duplex, the other side of her family duplex when we knew I was going in the service. And she stayed there the whole time, which was excellent because she was right next door to her mother and dad. And then she got a job with Utah Oil as a receptionist and she worked there all the time I was gone. She told them, "The day he sets foot back in Salt Lake, I quit!" (laughs) And she did. We were together and it was a real joyful reunion. But I stayed with the trucking for about a year, year-and-a-half, and then I got a chance to work for a friend of mine who had a surveying company and I went to work surveying. And I did that for about a year and then I went into sales for trucks and I was there about two or three years but I really didn't like it. Finally, my old softball manager talked me into coming to work for him. He was the manager of a printing company, and I didn't know anything about printing, and got into it and it was a lot like the service; it was something I really liked. So I stayed in that. I worked for two or three different companies, because the first one sold to another one, and then that one wasn't too great, I didn't think, so I went to work for a third one, and I retired from there, and I didn't make 54 |
