THE QATSPY® Leather, Blue Jeans, and Khaki Adventures
BY: Charles W. Boatright
Tremendous Opportunity that Vo-Tech Provides in building a Career for a Future to be Able to Determine Your Own Destiny of Being Self-employed
One of the biggest opportunities that has been overlooked and undersold to the American people is the Vo-Tech training education in lieu of College. There’s not a bigger opportunity for men and women for a career within 18-months than to be trained in a highly-training-skilled at Vocational Technology Institute and/or Community Colleges.
Both Mike Rowe, host of Somebody’s Gotta Do It, and John Ratzenberger, actor on the television show Cheers, are promoting an initiative to encourage young men and women to consider skill jobs taught in Vo-Tech and Community Colleges as a rewarding career. We have lost over the decades these highly-skilled jobs to foreign job markets. There is now a movement during this Administration to bring these jobs back. Made In the U.S.A. is a proud certification that we should all be buying and looking for in our products.
What is difficult is trying to figure out is the reasoning behind paying out $134,000 for tuition to have limited earnings for that expenditure over four (4) years. A college degree can be obtained at a later date as needed. We will be entering an era where technical skills will be in high demand.
Vo-Tech Institute provides one of the best opportunities for men and women alike to have the ability to develop high-leveled skills with above average earnings. This allows you to build your own business and live out the American Dream of being your own boss and not be tied to an office job with limited advancement or looking for an entry level position.
To prepare for the Vo-Tech Institute training, you will need to be proficient in science, including computer science, mathematics, reading comprehension, and verbal skills. Make sure that you establish clear communication where echo protocol is used. This makes sure that parties understand each other and eliminates mistakes. It also provides a sense of confidence that others have in your abilities. Also avoid what I call gap words in speaking like ‘um’ and ‘you know’,
Develop Your Own Destiny
I can’t think of a better opportunity than Vo-Tech Training to develop your own destiny than developing a high-leveled skill and starting your own business, or work with a company until you gain experience. There is nothing more satisfying than growing from a small business into a thriving company with high demand for your skill.
Even if you did attend college for a liberal arts degree, you can still pick up a craft or skill, even if it is just for a hobby. I took classes in electrical, welding, carpentry, and kinesiology while attending college. This is because I enjoy working with my hands and with others. After I graduated college, I designed and built my own home. Below is some of my carpentry work. I even laid the hardwood floors and built the cornices over each window.
Even aviation and avionics are part of Vo-Tech Training in some institutions. I have been in aviation since I was in the U.S. Army with the 101st Airborne. After leaving the service, I continued working in aviation while earning a degree in Civil Engineering and later worked as bridge project engineer and as transmission line engineer where I retired at age 56 to start my own coaching and apparel business.
Specialized Vo-Tech Field
I was in such a specialized field in Transmission Line engineering that I was pretty much on my own. My aviation background also came in handy while performing aerial patrols in both fixed and rotor winged aircraft. I conducted aerial patrol, mainly in the 206 Bell Jet Ranger, shown above, which is one of the best helicopters ever built and a very fine aircraft to fly.
The technical fields are endless that a person can go into and enjoy, and more are being added each year. The 33-years that I worked as a grid engineer, I never consider my job as work that I had to do over my career, because it was a passion for me. Even with hurricanes and ice storms, I fully enjoyed my work. What is also great about Vo-Tech training is that you are trained by people that either have worked or are presently working in that field.
I have a close friend who taught welding at a Vo-Tech Institute, and it is one of the highly demanding occupations. He even taught me how to weld, due to the work that I do around my farm.
I personally enjoy my welding and carpentry work that I’m still involved in today in my shop. A case in point is the work that my neighbor and I did on building my home gym, especially now during this pandemic. I have to exercise in order to maintain my fitness in my golf game and my weight. I have also attached a photograph of the home gym that I just finished in March of 2019, below. All the equipment that I use is shown in this photograph including a programmable stationary bicycle, partially shown below.
Sports is just as Vo-Tech as Most Crafts
I started my own business in sports after I retired to teach golf and sell personal apparel on my Online store, which is also a passion of mine. I have a passion for great style and the tailored looking clothes. Even if it is a leather jacket, blue jeans, or a pair of khakis, you can always look your best with proper fitting and tailored clothes.
The US WINGS® A-2 Leather Flight Jacket that I also carry in my Online store has become my new sports jacket of choice that I now wear, especially with this pandemic. I only have to wipe down my A-2 Leather Flight Jacket with a solution of dish detergent (1 teaspoon) and water (8 oz.) to clean and sanitize it. This can be done on a daily basis or when needed without having to dry clean that your wool-blend sports jacket requires.
This is the very reason the U.S. Military ordered the redesign of the A-1 Leather Flight Jacket after the 1918 Spanish Flu, to become the iconic A-2 Leather Flight Jacket that it is today. This is the very leather flight jacket that Fonzie on Happy Days made popular, along with the World War II pilots and Airborne paratroopers wore. I have long since hung up my wool-blend sports jacket that is an excellent breeding ground for bacteria and viruses to form.
We supply these A-2 Leather Flight Jackets to the U.S. Military that meets all specifications.
The A-2 Leather Flight Jacket looks great with pair of khaki pants and equally with my favorite, a pair of blue jeans and an Oxford Button-down Shirt that I accent with a tie, when needed for conducting business. I make several presentations to Veterans Groups on how golf is a great Cognitive Behavior-based Therapy for treating PTSD.
THE QATSPY® Golf Institute
As part of my golf training, I have produced several YouTube Golf Training Videos to demonstrate my Palmer Preset Technique APP that is available as a Download in my Online Store. Below is The Palmer Preset Technique APP:
Below are YouTube Videos to help demonstrate The Palmer Preset Technique APP, these are FREE of charge
THE QATSPY® Bunt-Type Chip Shot
THE QATSPY® Rap Pitch Shot
THE QATSPY® TICK-N-TOCK Putting Technique
THE QATSPY® Palmer Preset Technique APP
This YouTube Video was produced in 2014 before I lost 52-Lbs my following my 925-MET Diet Program and my CASPER Fitness Program. Just remember, 80% of your maintaining a healthy weight is your DIET, and ONLY 20% is your fitness. I’m in the process of reproducing this Driver YouTube in September of 2020.
THE QATSPY® RODE Wireless MIC 8-Iron Demonstration
In the 2014 Driver YouTube Video I had a conventional microphone that made it difficult to pick up the sound quality that I needed. In July 2020, I purchased a RODE Wireless Microphone system that made a tremendous difference in the quality of the audio.
THE QATSPY® CASPER Fitness Program Part 1
THE QATSPY® CASPER Fitness Program Part 2
If you have sciatic nerve issues, there are three particular exercises in these CASPER Fitness Programs that are great to relieve sciatic nerve issues- (1) Is the leg lifts, (2) Low Lat Exercise, and (3) the Ab Roller. Number two and three are demonstrated below:
Cloth Face Mask
We also carry the reusable and washable cloth face mask that have the same protection as the N-95 mask that we will need to wear for the foreseeable future, please see the article concerning testing done by University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Arkansas:
