If I Could Just Make $5000 A Year I Woiuld Have it Made

On November 20, 1963 I was discharged from the Army.  I was 21 years old and was looking for my first civilian job.  If, could just make $5000.00 a year, I would have it made.  Chrysler Corporation 1964 – 1965 became my first civilian job. General Foundry Worker... So for the next year I moved sand, castings, flasks, and other materials by hand, using wheelbarrows or carts, or by loading them onto conveyor; broke up used sand molds with bar, shoveled sand into sand-mixing machine, and sifted sand through motor-driven screen for reuse in new molds, broke up slag, using hammer, and shoveled it into buckets for removal to dump. All of this with a  starting wage of $2.50 per hour x 40 hours x 52 weeks = $5200.00...I was a success. However in 1965 Chrysler was looking for a Follow up Clerk for $2.68 per hour...I jumped at it...wouldn't you?  An $.18 cent per hour raise, a white collar job and out of the foundry. As a Follow up Clerk I located, gathered, and grouped, according to specifications, parts required to maintain plant production; located parts in plant by consulting production records, supervisors, and production personnel; posted information on status of accessory...and all manually...computers weren't use yet. In 1973 I gave Chrysler my resignation. I was going to get rich selling Amway Products . (Amway is an American multinational direct-selling company that uses multi-level marketing to sell a variety of products, primarily in the health, beauty, and home care markets) That was the worst blunder of my life even to this day.   "The odds of winning from a single spin of the wheel in a game of roulette in Las Vegas is 286 times as great as the odds of profiting after enrolling as an  Amway/Quixtar “distributor” http://www.thetruthaboutamway.com/amway-success-what-are-your-odds/