My Mentor............
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My Mentor............
People have asked me why I work so hard at my age (60) This man is one reason. Hank and I formed a great friendship about 30 years ago when we were both engineers working for a food equipment manufacturer. This guy is a dynamo! Up and working everyday at 4 am, always trying to make things better. I've done R&D for his company, and have always been treated fairly and payed on time with generous bonuses. It it is very nice to see him still going strong at 85!
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Fascinating bio about Mr. Svehaug. Thanks for sharing that.
I laughed at this line though:
Say something like that today and you'd probably be sued....
Do you still work with him or at least keep in touch?
I laughed at this line though:
One day, he recalls, his boss said: "You're a Norwegian. You can stand the smell of fish. Why don't you go after the seafood business for us?"
Do you still work with him or at least keep in touch?
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I still work with him on a regular basis, and my uncle still works for him and he's 78! Wife and I went to his wifes funeral a month ago and there where over 700 people there. The funeral was so large they had to have it in the Highschool gym! I owe the man a lot..................
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I bet we all have someone in our lives that without them, we'd be different people. Besides my father who I learned so much from, I had a science teacher in junior high that got me interested in Engineering. I knew from then that I wanted to be a Civil Engineer.
Sounds like your boss is a great guy.
I'm not so sure I like the idea of knowing that beef cattle are being raised on pig poop though.
Sounds like your boss is a great guy.
I'm not so sure I like the idea of knowing that beef cattle are being raised on pig poop though.
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Hank is not my boss.............He has his own company, and I have my own. We do collaborate on some R&D projects tho. He also owns 10 percent of a company that I founded that is in the process of developing a new process for dairy farms.
I consider myself very lucky to have worked with some great people that were willing to pass along their knowledge!
I consider myself very lucky to have worked with some great people that were willing to pass along their knowledge!
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I have learned alot from My father, Grandfather, Father-in-law and many teachers..
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I have a long list of folks like that who have touched me in some way. Trouble is, I'm getting older and I'm not around those types any more. 
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People have asked me why I work so hard at my age (60) This man is one reason. Hank and I formed a great friendship about 30 years ago when we were both engineers working for a food equipment manufacturer. This guy is a dynamo! Up and working everyday at 4 am, always trying to make things better. I've done R&D for his company, and have always been treated fairly and payed on time with generous bonuses. It it is very nice to see him still going strong at 85!
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One of the things that has kept me here on FTE is the fact that most people on here give freely of their knowledge and experiences, and are like family to one another.
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Something to kind of add to this, my dad is 66 and he's an auto body man..yes he's still doing this full time.
As a kid he'd toss me in the back of his 65 Mustang,later sold and bought a 63 Ford Fairlane and take me to car shows & the races. From that time on I had always wanted to me in automotive in some way.
So fast forward 30yrs later and now I'm a marketing guy in the automotive industry full time and I love going to work. This past weekend my dad and I took my 6 year old son Colin to the Saturday night races,he had a ball.It was kind of cool having three generations on us sitting there.
As a kid he'd toss me in the back of his 65 Mustang,later sold and bought a 63 Ford Fairlane and take me to car shows & the races. From that time on I had always wanted to me in automotive in some way.
So fast forward 30yrs later and now I'm a marketing guy in the automotive industry full time and I love going to work. This past weekend my dad and I took my 6 year old son Colin to the Saturday night races,he had a ball.It was kind of cool having three generations on us sitting there.
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Something to kind of add to this, my dad is 66 and he's an auto body man..yes he's still doing this full time.
As a kid he'd toss me in the back of his 65 Mustang,later sold and bought a 63 Ford Fairlane and take me to car shows & the races. From that time on I had always wanted to me in automotive in some way.
So fast forward 30yrs later and now I'm a marketing guy in the automotive industry full time and I love going to work. This past weekend my dad and I took my 6 year old son Colin to the Saturday night races,he had a ball.It was kind of cool having three generations on us sitting there.
As a kid he'd toss me in the back of his 65 Mustang,later sold and bought a 63 Ford Fairlane and take me to car shows & the races. From that time on I had always wanted to me in automotive in some way.
So fast forward 30yrs later and now I'm a marketing guy in the automotive industry full time and I love going to work. This past weekend my dad and I took my 6 year old son Colin to the Saturday night races,he had a ball.It was kind of cool having three generations on us sitting there.
I have 3 grandkids ( and another grandson on the way!) and they have been to the boat drags, our local sprint car track, and 2 local 1/4 mile tracks with the whole family. The look on their faces...........Priceless!