wow... you did a lot of things. That was an interesting read man, I love responses like this because they are so rare here.
the evolution of phones was a pretty crazy time to be alive during. I think in comparison it is rather boring today because back then we went from gigantic phones to ones that got increasingly smaller and somehow managed to hold a charge for a long period of time. the "Nokia Brick" is still my favorite phone of all time but I had a Motorolla that had nicad batteries and you would get so little actual talk time with it. It was something like 45 minutes total and everyone bought additional batteries. It was also expensive as hell to have one of these things let alone the service package that was normally filled with roaming zones that it was anyone's guess if you were in one or not.
RE: Electrolux vacuum salesman was the worst job I ever had