Kellogg Bloggin’: Dad said, ‘Don’t Be Like Me’
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As I grew older, I began to realize that what Dad meant when he said, "Don't be like me" was "get out of Kellogg" or "don't do what I did and spend your life in the Zinc Plant". I understood this even more when I turned seventeen and went to work in the Cell Room and worked as a stripper, pulling and replacing cathodes from electrolytic cells and then stripping and stacking the zinc from these plates. Dad had told me since I was about twelve or thirteen that I had to go to work in the Cell Room so that I would never want to stay "in that shit hole" and would be motivated to, in Franklin Simas Oliveria's words, "make a living with [my] brains." It was my dad's form of revulsion therapy -- Raymond Pert/Kellogg Bloggin'.
DFO: Raymond Pert used by post yesterday about the 30th anniversary of my father's death to recall his own pop.
Question: Is there any advice your parents gave you during your formative years that you remember today?
