Bob Keith's Biography
  
   Bob grew up on a dairy farm in Southern Wisconsin. After high school he spent three years in the Army Corps of Engineers stationed in Nuremberg, Germany. Much of his duty brought him to areas near what was the Czechoslovakian border that bordered old West Germany.  He was there in Germany watching on television like much of the Western World when Saigon and South Vietnam surrendered in April of 1975. That event and being marginally touched by its long lasting implications always stuck with Bob.
  
   After he left the Army he worked in a plethora of blue-collar jobs until starting college in 1995 part-time. He also worked at more blue-collar and off-beat jobs to get himself through college.  He chipped away at college off and on for ten years.

   While working on traditional degrees, Bob was granted diplomas in Busness Software; Emergency Medical Technician Basic and Intermediate; and the Fire Service Academy at Madison Technical College. He also took many paralegal and journalism classes there.

    Bob attained two associates' degrees from Madison Area Technical College - one in College Transfer courses and one in Administrative Assistant respectively. Bob then went to the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology with a Criminal Justice emphasis. He took one last gamble with college as an older returning college student and stayed on at UW-Whitewater and finished his master's course work in Communication with a Mass Media emphasis. At this time all he has left with his masters is to take a final comprehensive exam.

Some of the jobs Bob has had in his life are:

Dairy farmer; gas station jockey; Army engineer; furniture delivery person; feed mill worker; cargo truck assembly factory worker; basic welder; bouncer; bartender; school bus driver; landscape chemical pesticide applicator; grounds maintenance supervisor; small landscape business owner; auto mechanic; auto parts customer service desk worker; janitor; lifeguard; ambulance driver; emergency medical technician; nursing assistant, Alzheimer’s patients’ assistant; lifeguard; YMCA customer service desk worker; disabled college students’ assistant; older college students’ assistant; restaurant review writer (Wisconsin Friday night fish frys); newspaper circulation worker; newspaper mail room worker; and, in-country cultural writer - Viet Nam (post-war) and Iraq (active war).

Click on the Daily Dadio Blog "Jobs of Bob" category to read an ongoing chronology of vignettes about Bob's many, and often quirky blue-collar jobs over the last 40 years.