[GH85Carrera]

My old boss was a world champion procrastinator, and it seemed to work for him all the time.

I had a planned 2 week vacation coming up. I was going to be gone and on a long trip so unavailable, and this was all in the days before I had a cell phone. I kept telling him he needed to hire someone to do some of the easy tasks in my computer graphics department.

Three days before I was to leave an 18 year old kid came in and handed his resume to the front desk chick. He was a certified Photoshop master, and total computer geek. I had tried to train other people to run the equipment and it was like trying to teach a monkey to type. This kid I showed him once, and he took minimal notes, and had it cold. The really good news (for me) was he only wanted a summer job, and was going to Europe to college in a few months. He could have taken over my computer department with a month of training.

He was like the perfect replacement for me, and the perfect employee for the company owner.

He saw the copy of DOS 1.1 and DOS 2.0 on my shelf and asked to copy the 5.25 inch floppies. He built an old computer from parts he found in the back of computer stores, and some junk I had, and loaded DOS 1.1 on it, just to play with it. No sub-directories, and pitiful graphics. Just like the early days of a 4.77 MHz computer. He did it for fun.