I guess there was a nuclear power project in its infant stages out of Oak Ridge Tennessee. There were various engineers working on the project design, but they wanted to bring in maintenance guys (like my Dad) early in the development process as well. Dad went down to Oak Ridge to interview for a week and everything sounded good, but when he came back the Carter administration shut the project down before it went any farther.
Had he gotten that job, good chance I'd be wearing a different shade of orange today.