
Chapter 00 – Introduction to Teacher Lee’s Story of a Lifetime
This blog segment describes the story of my life (the 1950s to the present). These chapters will achieve the following English objectives: Teach you new vocabulary words, idioms, and collocations


Chapter 01 – My Childhood (up to 18 years old)
Let’s start out by first defining what I mean by childhood. A person’s childhood may refer to different age ranges depending on the focus of the conversation. In terms of maturity,


Chapter 02 – My College Life
In Chapter 1, you learned that I grew up under humble circumstances and that my parents were poor and uneducated. Nevertheless, my parents provided my brothers and me the basic necessities of life,


Chapter 03 – My Navy Life
Let’s review our travel down my timeline. In Chapter 1, you learned a little about my childhood years. In Chapter 2, you learned about my college years. Now we begin


Chapter 04 – Westinghouse
Continuing my saga, I have just left the Navy and accepted my first civilian job with Westinghouse Electric Company. It is August, 1980, and I have moved to Zion, Illinois, to work in


Chapter 05 – Contracting
Let’s see where we are on my timeline. Chapter 5 begins that part of my life when I began “renting” myself out for hire on an hourly contract basis, usually for one


Chapter 06 – Nuclear Power Plant Site
Let’s see where we are on my timeline. Chapter 6 begins that part of my life when I worked directly for a utility (that is, I was a utility employee,


Chapter 07 – Career Change to Non-Nuclear Work
Let’s see where we are on my timeline. Chapter 7 begins that part of my life when I tried to leave the nuclear field and work in more conventional types


Chapter 08 – Back to Westinghouse
Chapter 8 of my life brought me full circle. When I left the US Navy in 1980, I began my professional civilian nuclear career with Westinghouse. After working at Westinghouse for


Chapter 09 – Contracting
April, 2014 At the end of Chapter 8, I quit Westinghouse to return to the contracting world. Chapter 9 discusses my contract jobs after leaving Westinghouse. My last chapter explained


Chapter 10 – Retirement
This post brings me to final chapter of my life — retirement. As always, the purpose of documenting my life in this way is to accomplish the following goals: (1) to