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Back in the early 1980s Oklahoma was having a major oil boom. The company I worked at was a professional photo-lab. We need more employees to work in the darkroom. Some knowledge of basic photography was a requirement. This was long before the internet.
We put an ad in the newspaper, and the only replies we received were phone calls. They all started the same, "I presently be incarcerated, but I be getting out in a few days...." The jobs went unfilled until the oil boom went bust. Then we had all sorts of people wanting to work there. Men that had been getting 200K per year were looking for minimum wage jobs. It was astonishing to see people that made major bucks had spend it all on toys and big houses. Jet skis, high end pickups, and lake houses. They were broke, unemployed and selling everything because they spent it all.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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