Termite TV - Life Stories

Ah yes, my name is Doug C. I’m from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. And I served in the United States Navy. For several years, then I was a steal worker in Pittsburg for about 14 years. And they phased out the mills in the early 80’s. And then I put in for a lot of different jobs with the federal government. And I was fortunate enough to work for the department of the army, I to moved around the country a little bit. Then I went down to Washington D.C. and worked for the Smithsonian. And then I came back home because my parents were sick and I worked at the VA hospital for about 11 years. And it was great job working at the VA hospital. Theirs a lot of World War II veterans, people that need a lot of help and everything. And towards the end it was getting very depressing because theirs very little you can do for WWII veterans, because they’re dying off and their sob. Theirs approximately 15 hundred that are dying off a day. And it’s a very sad thing to see and I wanted to change directions. And I put in for a national park service job and it’s a great job, it’s a nice park service and the people are nice to work for. I guess the management team, I guess we all work well together. And you can see out here, the environments great. It’s a very nice job and it’s a great place to work. Yea, we’re in the Badlands National Park in South Dakota. And it’s a great place to work. And it’s kinda like a diversified type of environment. We have prairie country and we have mountains surrounding here. And my particular job, I do a little of everything. I worked as a laborer and motor vehicle operator. It’s a small crew and we all work well together. It’s a great place to work, South Dakota’s such a nice place, ya know? It’s very low crime here. And there’s not that many people living in South Dakota, everyone gets along fine. And that’s all I have to say.