While in high school I got a job working in a chrome plating shop owned by the father of a close friend. I was doing both plating and polishing. The pay was good. On a typical day plating, I would wear a t shirt and Levi’s with boots. At the end of the day most of the t shirt and the Levi’s had been eaten away by the acid used in the plating process. While the pay was good I soon realized that a college education was vital.