Mine was, after I got out of the Air Force, I applied for working on an Air Force Base. They adverted for it, and I was tested along with other's. Working on transient aircraft, electronics. Starting pay grade, with base benifits, GS12 or so. Well, I was in college at the time. The notice was sent to my Father in Laws house, an executive for Continental Emsco. I got the job, however, he did not notify me, claimed I did not need that job. WTF? I could have retired in my 40's set for life. He had no idea.
Anyway. that was it. I eventually came back home, and started working for National Panasonic, doing repairs, and then quit them and went to GM. National Panasonic scared me during the interview, they had a min daily output which I had no idea if I could do it, that was like some kind of assembly line repair. I quickly found however, I could beat the schedule every day.
As for my father in law at the time, The company made him head executive in Singapore, So, he and his family shipped out for that and asked me to watch his bar, So I did more than that, I drank all of it, took me a week, but I did it.
The reason I left electronic repair was the industry was quickly evolving into modular electronics. I loved reading schematics and tracing problems, but the industry going modular was eliminating reading and reasoning, it was turning into plug and play. If if was bad, you unplugged the bad part and plugged in a new one. Any moron can do that. They took all the fun out of it.
While in Thailand, I showed a company tech how to take a 6 hour bench check and turn it into 30 min. If a system suddenly failed it failed at one point. You can actually use your finger as a signal injector, and us the O-scope to trace signal failure. He did not believe me until I showed him.