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  • A place if cleansing souls and water baptisms, Englebright Lake is in the Sierra foothills of Northern California. Photo by John Shafer
    A place if cleansing souls and water baptisms, Englebright Lake is in the Sierra foothills of Northern California. Photo by John Shafer
    Last week I gave an overview of my 40 year career which was a learning experience. Most jobs are an opportunity to learn.Early on I performed some pretty dirty jobs. In my first couple of weeks of reserve training in the Navy I cleaned firesides in a boiler on a destroyer berthed in San Diego.This job is where you crawl through a tiny hole into a boiler. Then you scrape the baked-...

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