Back to the Drawing Board – a memoir of the pre-computer age - Softcover

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This hilarious memoir of drawing-office life in the pre-computer age, when draughtsmanship was still an art, is also timely as we turn hesitantly back to manufacturing industry to earn our living in the world as a nation.
But Back to the Drawing Board is not a stereotypical account of one aspect of industrial life in those far-off times. There is no career plan. The author takes us back to the mid-1950s when, a grammar-school failure with only an O-level in Art to impress employers, he stumbles into the drawing-office life as he might have done any other job. He at once encounters an ageing but naturally gifted practitioner of the art of draughtsmanship, however - a man with other unusual talents, too, but no formal training - who will remain the hero of his working life.
An interlude in the Merchant Navy follows (to escape National Service), then a series of tragicomic false starts and frustrations, until - ever a square peg with strong artistic leanings - he at last finds a pleasant and secure home in an unlikely setting, happily able to shun computers to the end.
The book concludes with a guided tour of the places where the author once worked, to see what has become of them in the modern age of information technology, shopping and leisure, and high finance.

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