Incessant Expectations by Kenneth Fenter,
a classic tale of
When one door closes,
look for the one that's open
Jim Howard, second year student in fine arts at Mesa State College, and full time farmer on the family farm, suddenly has the door closed in his face one day in early June 1976.
One day he is tending the corn, beans, grain and alfalfa. Two weeks later he is leaving the only place and life he knows to venture to an unknown land. Behind him are the tractor he spends hours on most days, and the mountains he fishes in and looks out at each morning.
After two days on the road in his Chevy pickup he is in the Pacific Northwest, land of Douglas firs, and crashing surf. 
and huge logging trucks feeding numerous saw mills in the Willamette Valley and the coastal towns.
He almost immediately gets a job working the green chain at a small lumber company. It is the first time in his 22 years that he earns a paycheck. He has worked on a crew on the farm, but he finds working on the crew at the mill is a little different. He has a lot to learn working for someone else for a paycheck, and how to get along with his fellow workers.
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