Red Diaper Baby Mid-Life Transitions (ePub)

This book describes the personal, professional, and political changes in my post-WWII life. After attending Purdue University to obtain a master’s degree in mechanical engineering plus course work on a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, I gave up an academic career to pursue other interests in singing and Third Party progressive politicians (like Henry Wallace). I took a job with a large consulting engineer in Los Angeles as a heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) design engineer.
I did all the things expected of a single man: (1) get married, (2) have three children, (3) buy a house and remodel it to accommodate a growing family, (4) encourage the children with their schoolwork and music lessons, and (5) send the kids off to college. At the same time, I was building my professional reputation in the building construction industry. I was employed by a large architect-engineer firm, became their chief mechanical engineer, and later resigned because they wanted me to work on a new US airbase in Spain. As a result, I started my own consulting mechanical engineering business. It grew rapidly, and I brought in George Hayakawa to form Ayres & Hayakawa.
During this period, I vigorously opposed the House of Representatives Un-American Activities Committee, the anticommunist legislators, and Senator Joseph McCarthy. Many of our personal friends lost their jobs during these thought-control smear campaigns.
I divorced my wife, Anita, and George Hayakawa about the same time. Spending the rest of my life with Anita was not appealing to me, and I wanted to do more exciting engineering projects in energy conservation, solar design and off-peak cold storage, and computer designed HVAC systems. I moved Ayres Associates to the sixth floor, and Hayakawa Associates remained on the seventh floor of the same building.
During this transition time, I regained my health and sexual vigor by taking five classes per week of intense yoga, jogging, taking tennis

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