His father suggested he be a teacher  Charley Hannagan | By
Charley Hannagan | on February 09, 2009 at 1:20 PM John
Olszewski is a 12th-grade economics teacher at Auburn High
School. He became a teacher after being laid off from General
Electric in 1991.  By 1991, John Olszewski had experienced the
highs of a hero's welcome and being laid off by a company he
thought would provide him with a job through retirement.  After
graduating from Syracuse University in 1977 with a degree in
political science and history, he joined the U.S. Army as a
private, attended Officer Candidate School and became an
intelligence officer serving in Korea and Europe.  By 1990,
Olszewski had returned to Syracuse and gotten a job with General
Electric Co., what is now Lockheed Martin Corp., in its radar
division.  "I had a very small job, but it was a very nice
little job. It had a little bit of potential to it," said
Olszewski, 55, of Camillus.  Olszewski's Army Reserve unit was
called up to serve during Desert Storm.  While on duty