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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-on soot down to b…