I was a Tech for AT&T for 25yrs...not enough to keep a job when they merged with SBC & became at&t...spent 3yrs as an Elevator Mechanic Apprentice before being laid off because of lack of business(I was 6mo short of taking the Mechanics test)...14mos out of work when I landed a job as an assembler at Federal Signal(making strobe lights & such) in Febuary...just got moved up to Recieving Inspector.