NEVER SAY NEVER!

When I was growing up, my Mother worked so hard to supply the things I needed.  She worked as a seamstress, worked in a mattress factory, and other places.  The last place she worked was Lake
Catherine Footwear, as a stitcher.  She never complained about the hard work, or that she still had
work to do when she got home. 

When I was about 12 years of age, I vowed I would have a good education no matter how hard I had
to work mentally or physically. Mother had the best education she could have gotten in a one room
school house.  I vowed not to work in a factory or sew for people.

From age 12 to date:  I did get a good education.

I was never going to work in a factory.  I broke that vow.   I spent my 31 year career at Munro and    Company (aka Lake Catherine Footwear).  I wasn't a stitcher.  I was a computer programmer and later Employee benefits director, BUT the reason I could hold those positions was because of the CUTTERS,

STITCHERS, PACKERS, and everyone else who had anything to do with making shoes.  No job
is any less important than another, and no PERSON doing those jobs are any less important than
the person in charge of it all.

I also broke the other vow. (you know, the one about sewing for people)  I have replaced a button
on a pair of Ron's pants.  If I have to hem a pair of pants, I buy hemming tape.  Once, at a boatrace I even used duct tape.


NEVER SAY NEVER!  You never know where your road will lead you or why!  I thank God I chose
the one that was on Mother's map.  I just seem to be taking the long way around.