Bill Meehan:  

Life Well, after graduating from B.H.S. in '83, I went to Northeatern University in Boston to major in Computer Engineering. While on my second co-op job assignment (by the way, I'm a big advocate of co-op programs in general), I was offered an indefinite co-op position by my employer, C.S.P. Inc. of Billerica, MA. This alleviated any pressures associated with having to search for and find a job during my subsequent co-op work semesters. C.S.P. Inc. promised me a job when I finished school, based on my performance during my initial co-op assignments. Upon finishing up at Northeastern, I proceeded to work at C.S.P. Inc. until 1994, at which time I made a huge life-altering career change. As some of you might know, I always enjoyed listening to music. Once I started playing guitar (during my years at B.H.S.!), I developed a real passion for playing, performing, and eventually teaching guitar. In early 1994, I lost my dad to complications caused by emphezema. A few weeks before he passed, we were having a long chat about various things when he said something so profound that I never forgot it. He said that he had been a laborer (a truck driver more specifically) his whole life, and that he couldn't stand his job. He then told me that if I had an opportunity to make a living doing what I love (which in my case was music), then I ought to seriously consider doing so, because in his opinion, "there is no substitute for waking up every morning and actually looking forward to going to work." Those words had quite an impact on me, as I was going through some soul-searching regarding my career at that time. So, on April 15, 1994. I left my job as Diagnostic Engineer at C.S.P. Inc. to become a self-employed freelance guitarist/musician. This might seem completely insane to a lot of you, and truth be known, in a lot of ways it was insane! However, I did have a lot of guitar-related income at that time. So i wasn't completely diving off into the deep-end so-to-speak. I was...Expand for more