Just me. Father-in-law was nuke QC but died a couple years back. He was building Clinton over 2 decades ago when I met his daughter in Mahomet, IL. We married shortly before I went to DC Cook and we've been together ever since. Two sons, 20 and 21 but they never took an interest in the biz. I guess they have a certain resentment toward the road after changing residence some 15 times over their up-bringing. The LAST move in 2002 was the worst. They were both in highschool and I took a house gig here at PI. We were living outside Cincinnati. Had been for over 4 years. Life seemed normal. Then Fernald started looking like it would end before I retired, so I took this secure gig I'm in now, which meant everyone had to move AGAIN.
The up-side? My kids have been places and seen/done things that none of their friends have dreamed of. They've always had the best of everything. They are well rounded, well adjusted adults now with more on the proverbial ball than most. Our family has grown incredibly tight through all the road has put us through. Not a day goes by that I don't thank the big guy upstairs for all I've got. Oh yah ... and all of the nice people who've written me those big honkin' checks over the years which made our lives a hell of a lot better than they would have been if I'd decided to be a full time writer. Having this as a day job makes a lot of other things possible.
I have two buddies from highschool who became Lawyers. Ya know ... neither one has caught up to me on the money train yet. Unless one of them makes partner, they never will. And as for the writer thing: Although I only write in my spare time, have been for forever, I have my first big time novel coming out in the Spring. I have a real live publisher and everything. Not a vanity press either. The book will be in Borders, B Dalton and on Amazon when it hits the shelves.
Go figure. I ended up being a writer in the end.
Most people say things like "I wouldn't trade a minute of it for the world" and "If I had it all to do again, I wouldn't change a thing" ......
Horse Puckey.
There are things ... albeit little things ... here and there we would all change if we could. But the crux of it seems to be: We are where we are because that's where we are supposed to be. No matter how one tries to get around it, the Nuke Biz has played a big part in all of our lives. Had it not been for her father working at Clinton, I would never have met my wife. Had that not happened, my two sons would never have come into existance. Had I never worked at Vogtle, I would have played hell finding a place to stage one crucial scene in my new book.
So ..... Short story long ... I'm still the only one in the family that actually works Nuke ... But the rest of my family ... and most of yours too ... lives a nuclear-based life.
Hide and seek for a grand a week baby! .... Well ... it's more like two grand these days
after taxes ..... Man Imiss perdiem!
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