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Leo Fitka

School Maintenance Man

Leo works for the Lower Yukon School District in Marshall and he works as the maintenance man at the school. He's gone through high school and two years of A & P mechanic training. He got his training in Los Angeles in building maintenance right after high school.

He works 8 hours a day around the school grounds. He gets paid 2,000 dollars a month and his boss is Roger Adams. As long as Leo is healthy he will stay on the job. Most of the time he works with Katemal Shorty and Paul Boots.

His responsibilities are to maintain heat, water and lights in the school, to maintain the teacher housing, to maintain the school building both inside and out, and to maintain the school vehicles. The best thing about his job is having a variety of things to do rather than the same thing every day. The worst thing about his job is to fix the frozen water or oil lines in 20 degree below zero weather at night.

His advice to the students is have futher education right after high school.

Interviewed by: Carmen
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