>> So I was a United States marine for twenty one years and has most folks in uniform,
we take a lot off duty education and so I participated in a lot of off duty education
and like most folks in uniform, you transfer every two or three years
and there's a difference school in every different town and I ended
up meeting a counselor at [Inaudible] who said to me, Nelson, all these credits you have,
by that time I had like a hundred credits from seven different schools and he explained
to me a problem that [Inaudible] had at the time that would help me combine all the credits,
figure out a degree plan and with all the credits ,and a couple more,
that I would be to complete my degree.
I had been looking for new position.
I was ready for new challenge and the Smithsonian opened up and I applied
and I interviewed half dozen times there.
And it, it, it's a great place to work.
It really is.
One of the things I enjoy about the museum; my office is actually in one of the museums,
and so it's very nice to walk through the museum in seven thirty in the morning
when there are no visitors and be able to look at the new exhibits that are being put together
or old exhibits and that's word of saying it.