{"id":793,"date":"2014-06-15T06:29:22","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T06:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nixhome.com\/?p=793"},"modified":"2018-11-20T00:40:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T00:40:53","slug":"fathers-day-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nixhome.com\/index.php\/2014\/06\/15\/fathers-day-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Father\u2019s Day Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At age 11, I was taught to weld two pieces of metal together like an \u201cA\u201d without the middle, as this: \/\\. Every time I finished the bead, Pop would pound down on it with a 20-pound sledge. It broke. Countless times I failed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Between each time, Pop would hold the two pieces in each of his \nmassive, calloused hands and point out the places that I didn\u2019t get \nenough heat, or wasn\u2019t keeping my hands steady. Eventually, the metal \nbent, and the bead held. I learned to troubleshoot, adjust, and correct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160328220645\/http%3A\/\/i0.wp.com\/nixhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Welder-011.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nixhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Welder-011-2.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-678\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At\n 13 I was welding for the public. When most young boys my age were \nplaying sports or hunting with their fathers\u2013or doing what I thought was\n \u201chaving fun\u201d\u2013I was stuck in a welding shop, working my tired arse off \nfrom the time school was out until dark-thirty. I was bitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I got paid (for the first two years) $150 per month. Out of that, I \npaid my tuition at the private school Pop had helped build, literally. \nThe swing-sets, basketball goals, see-saws, you name it, those were \n\u201cdonations in kind from Nix Welding Shop\u201d I had to buy my own lunches, \nand pay to join any sort of clubs (e.g., glee club) with anything extra I\n could save. That left little money for me to spend on my comic book \n(Flash, Green Lantern, and the occasional Haunted Tank) collection. I \nwas bitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At 15, once I passed my driver\u2019s license test, Pop began to pay me \nhalf my labor. In 1978, as a ninth-grade student, I was paid $9 per \nhour. At the same time, Pop told me to choose (only) one sport. He \nallowed me to play one more year of every sport, to make up my mind. I \ndropped baseball, basketball, and track; I stuck with American football.\n While the other young men in my class were playing those sports I had \ndropped, I left school on those days early. I worked from noon-ish to \ndark-thirty. I was bitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of my classmates\u2019 parents bought them cars or pickups to drive. I\n bought my own, and I paid for my own insurance on that vehicle. Those \nexpenses ate into my \u201csavings\u201d and I complained relentlessly to Pop, \nbecause he wouldn\u2019t pay me more, or at least treat me \u201clike a son rather\n than an employee.\u201d He may have listened, but he didn\u2019t budge. The only \ntimes I felt we had a father-son relationship was when the weather was \ntoo bad to work. During those times, we played Scrabble. I learned to \nread upside-down, and I learned to challenge. Yet, I was bitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160328220645\/http%3A\/\/i1.wp.com\/nixhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/money-back-guarantee.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nixhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/money-back-guarantee-2.png?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-661\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\n guaranteed everything we put out. For the first few years of my welding\n career that meant I lost money every single time a customer returned \nwith something I\u2019d built or repaired. There were no exceptions; if it \ncame from Pop\u2019s shop it had to be top quality. Our integrity was at \nstake. I had to get better. That meant more practice which translated \ninto less time for \u201cme\u201d. Yes, bitterness again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I began filing taxes and doing the \u201coffice management\u201d for Pop\u2019s \nWelding shop at 16 years of age. Sending out statements, driving to \ncollect money from customers that hadn\u2019t paid after 30 days, all those \nactivities had to be performed on Saturday afternoons, or Sundays, \nbetween church services. I had precious little time for homework, much \nless for leisure reading or my new hobby, listening to and \u201cmaking\u201d \nmusic with my great Uncle Ralph. I also began to sing lead for local \nbands, it was difficult to find time to practice. I was bitter because I\n had to work so much when others had so much time to \u201cplay.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160328220645\/http%3A\/\/i1.wp.com\/nixhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/garden-august-22-2011-005.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nixhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/garden-august-22-2011-005-1.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-623\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh,\n then there was \u201cthe garden.\u201d Pop wasn\u2019t happy growing enough just to \nfill our two freezers. He felt his garden had to feed people within \n10-miles driving distance. He planted things that others didn\u2019t grow: \nBrussel\u2019s sprouts, asparagus, carrots, unique beans, special cabbages \nand lettuces and (I thought then) every pea known to mankind. And Corn. \nYes, we needed corn for the hogs we raised (the hogs I\u2019d slopped every \nmorning since I was old enough to drag 5-gallon buckets of leftover food\n from ours, Granma\u2019s and Granny\u2019s houses). It seemed there was never \n\u201cpersonal\u201d time for anything I wanted to do. Yeah, bitterness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160328220645\/http%3A\/\/i2.wp.com\/nixhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Learning-Lessons.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nixhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Learning-Lessons-1.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-609\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Years\n later, when I look back on the lessons I learned, I am quite simply in \nawe of the quantity. I wonder, without the bitterness of the time, how \nmuch more I might have learned? There is very little I do not know how \nto do. Despite being an \u201coffice boy\u201d for most of the time since 1988, I \ngenerally \u201cfix\u201d stuff for myself. Unless there is a license required, I \ndo anything that our house needs. I maintain our vehicles. I grow \nvegetables that we cannot buy locally, or that are too modified to look \nor taste safe. If I have access to a welding machine, I can basically \nbuild anything I might want or need. I can put tie-wire on a \nswing-bearing that goes out on the tip-top of the Teton Mountains, and \ndrive my vehicle back home because everything is closed on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160328220645\/http%3A\/\/i0.wp.com\/nixhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/grateful.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"145\" height=\"97\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nixhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/grateful-e1430002421315.jpeg?resize=145%2C97&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-508\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On\n Father\u2019s day, I look back and I am glad, thankful, and I am not bitter.\n No, not everyday was rosy, and not every lesson learned was from \npositive role-modeling. However, there is no doubt that I would not have\n attained the levels of success I have achieved thus far in my life \nwithout many of those hard, time-consuming lessons from Pop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After 16 years of life without you, you are even more appreciated, \nyou are sorely missed, and you are still teaching me, Jerry Nix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At age 11, I was taught to weld two pieces of metal together like an \u201cA\u201d without the middle, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[15,7],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reflection","tag-gratitude","tag-reflection"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Father\u2019s Day Memories - J. 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