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Special Report #49
Part of the
“I see you to succeeding"
series.
B2 or 2B?
What you don't get might be better than getting what you do want...
Back in 1989 or so, I applied for and was accepted into a job training program at Lake Washington VocTech, in Kirkland, Washington for Boeing on the B2 Stealth Program. It was an 8 week program, 6-8 hours / day / no pay, but high likelihood of being hired if you perform well in class. I was working as a horse vet tech at the time so it was a full schedule. I attended all the classes, was on time every time and did really well.
Some students seemed to be "on probation" for one thing or another the whole time. Some students wouldn't come back after lunch, some missed classes and so forth. The instructor had been a Department of Defense Instructor his whole career and this would be his last class before retiring.
I was very quiet and introverted at that time and just did what I was shown. We were bonding titanium and a composite material. But through the whole class the instructor kept saying how we would be doing "different" stuff once hired...using different materials. So what we were doing was very important to the training on such a hush-hush program, but we wouldn't be doing quite what we were doing in class?
The final day of the class the instructor was encouraging questions and I finally worked up the courage to ask, "How come we're spending eight weeks using materials we won't use once hired?"
The instructor sort of just grumbled and walked away. I went through the whole interview process and didn't hear anything back. Some weeks later I ran into a group of seven or eight guys from the class (there were about 40 in the class), at Gold's Gym Kirkland.
They asked, "Where you been?...everyone was hired... Where ya' workin'?" Apparently everyone was hired except me. As the years went by I interviewed with Boeing for a couple other jobs. Every four or five years, whenever I would run into someone who had worked at Boeing I would tell them this story and they would say something like, "Hmmm!"
Occasionally I would run into someone who had experience with that plane and they would tell me you can't touch that plane because it's so toxic...if you touch it you get cancer. I would think, "Well that can't be right, I worked on that stuff and we had to handle the material... they probably just tell people that to prevent them from touching the plane."
In 2013 (some 24 years later?) I ran into a Boeing engineer while selling guns at a sporting goods store in Seattle and told him the story.
For me, I was just curious, "What happened?...did my question the last day of class really get me deleted from the program?"
Well, this last time was different. This engineer had been on that program and knew of the group I had gone to school with. His reply?
He said, "Oh, you can be glad you didn't get hired... All those guys died... the material they were working with were so toxic they all got really weird cancer(s) and died... but in order to be hired they had to sign a non-disclosure that they couldn't talk about any of it...you are probably the only guy from that class who isn't dead."
He said the materials were SO toxic that each of the individual ingredients were so toxic that they pretty much start killing a person as soon as they come into contact with them. Each chemical was deadly toxic by themselves, but in combination the danger level was off the charts.
After two decades, I got the answer I was looking for... I did miss out on the crazy wages those guys earned, but I had been alive the whole time with really good health long after the program was over.
What you don't get might be better than getting what you do want.
And it might take a really long time to find out why you didn't get what you thought you wanted.
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