John Enos:  

CLASS OF 1982
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Danville, IL

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Life After high school I moved around a lot. I was in a band playing the hotel circuit around the Midwest, then I was a traveling salesman for awhile. I made my way down to Phoenix, AZ in 1987 and lived there for a few months. Some friends talked me into moving to Georgia with them and we ran a pecan orchard for a season. I also worked for a carnival; that was interesting. After that experience, seeing what goes on behind the scenes, I will NEVER let my kids ride the rides at a traveling carnival! I moved back up to Illinois where I met my wife in 1988. After we got married her job (auditor for the government) took us to Okinawa, Japan where we lived for three years. My son was an infant when we left the States and my daughter was born there. We came back to northern IL in 1993 and lived in DeKalb for a couple of years. The job market wasn't great there, and there was a lot of gang activity in our neighborhood so we moved back down by Danville. We lived in Olivet and Georgetown until 2000. In the fall of 2000 I received a job offer as a web developer in Rolling Meadows, IL so we all moved back up to the ...Expand for more
Chicago area. That job ended because of Sept. 11th. The majority of our clients were based in lower Manhattan, so the terrorist attacks bankrupted the company. I took other jobs and worked on my computer skills, working third shift as a computer operator for three years. We bought a nice house in Arlington Heights, IL in February of 2007 and I now work in downtown Chicago as a network administrator. I love my job and enjoy my commute to Michigan Ave. every day. My daughter is a junior in high school and doing well. My son is a freshman at UIC majoring in political science. He wants to go to law school and later go into politics. College I never did finish my degree. I went to Eastern IL for the summer semester in 1982. I didn't qualify for any tuition assistance, so I couldn't afford to finish the fall and had to drop out. I picked up another two semesters of Computer Science when we lived in Okinawa and another semester at DACC in 2000. I stopped when I got the job offer in the Chicago area. Now my computer experience is getting me better jobs, but I still plan to finish my degree one of these days.
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