This is an accounting of my life, the twenty plus different jobs and occupations and the various travels here in the United States and abroad. I have started almost all of the vocations learning from the ground up, secured loans and debt through second mortgages, friends, and negotiations to finance some of the larger projects. I am from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, "fly over country". In the 60 plus years of my life, there have been significant changes in the world, and we are now progressing logarithmically rather than geometrically compared to the past. I portrayed what our family did throughout our lives, the successes and failures. I credit to my survival to retirement in an unwavering confidence in "me", and a wife willing to back me in my never ending quest of learning.
Noah P. Borkenhagen Jr.My passion is learning new "stuff". My problem is I read slowly (Yes, I have taken speed reading classes) and my comprehension of what I read is below average so I need to read the same information several times to be able to recollect it. I learn by doing, what I do with my hands or experience I need only to do once and I know it. Life offers this, formal schooling does not.Those that learn by the traditional school methods advance and get degrees, then teach using the same method, leaving me and others like me to seek other methods to satisfy our lust for learning. Most jobs take a few months to learn, then only a few years to perfect, then most of it is a repeat and you manage. Boring! This is what I went through and put my family through to quench that lust to learn. Most jobs have many things to offer, and the variety of people is fascinating!