How To Get Promoted Working for the State Me at home around that time but has nothing to do with the story I had been spoiled. During my whole working career, up to this point, I had always been promoted without ever asking or even inquiring for one. Even when I was working a summer job when I was a kid back in New York I had been asked to be acting manager of a toy department for E.J. Korvette even though there were other, older permanent employees in the department at the time. When the manager left it was me they asked to temporarily replace him. In the Air Force promotions were strictly based on time, grade and reviews. I worked a summer in a bakery factory where they had planned to promote me to the lead position when I returned the following summer. After the Air force I worked 6 months for a lighting and lamp parts distributor. I drove their delivery truck. When the owner had to be out for a few months for surgery he asked me to take over managing the warehous...
Heads Up Curtis Park, We're Looking At You: Our House on Portola I t was 1997. In '97 Bill Clinton was starting his second term as President. The Dow Jones climbed over 7000 for the first time. It was the year of the 1 st Harry Potter book (The Philosopher's Stone). It was also the year Princess Diana died in a car accident. Movie of the year? - Titanic. I was now working for the State of California in the Department of Corrections (CDCR) and our project had recently relocated to the old Aerojet complex out in Rancho Cordova. That year Kris and I accepted that children were not going to be in our future. While we liked our house in Rocklin, we never felt that we quite fit in there. We were always going down to Sacramento so we decided to get the heck out of Rocklin and Placer County. We began to look at homes in Sacramento proper. We liked midtown and so initially looked for a place there. Each time we found a house we liked it had hardly any yard for our...