Jonathan Henson:
CLASS OF 1989
Golden West High SchoolClass of 1989
Visalia, CA
Valley Oak Middle SchoolClass of 1985
Visalia, CA
Ivanhoe Elementary SchoolClass of 1983
Ivanhoe, CA
Elbow Elementary SchoolClass of 1980
Visalia, CA
Elbow Creek Elementary SchoolClass of 1977
Visalia, CA
Jonathan's Story
Life
Lots of music. thats my life. Had ads in 37 countries at one time. Very much single & never married. Just yer average loser musician haha
School
ok if you will notice i got alot of schools over there. alot of moving when i was young , it goes - (i think)
1976 kindergarten - Started at Ivanhoe (cuz i remember my great grandma Orr was the teacher's aide)
1976 kindergarten - moved to Liberty School in Visalia
1976-77 kindergarten - moved back to Ivanhoe , went to Elbow Creek in the afternoon
1977 1st grade - ok these 2 might be switched , i dont remember well. Started at Elbow (i remember sitting on the floor)
1977-78 1st grade moved to Ivanhoe school due to overcrowding. had Mrs. Suggs (i think , can't remember if she was at Ivanhoe or Elbow)
1978-79 2nd grade Mr McDonald at Elbow
1979-80 3rd grade Mrs McNutt at Elbow
1980-81 4th grade Mrs Clark and her frumpy teachers aide
1981-82 5th grade Mrs Madruga she was beautiful , i remember she took 3 of us a day home to her house for about a week , kinda like a field trip to see how a teacher lives i guess. She drove a VW Bug i remember sitting in the back seat haha
1982-83 6th grade Mr Borrud. I think. 4th - 6th all at Ivanhoe.
1983-1985 - Valley Oak middle school
1985-1989 - Golden West High School
I remember walking to Ivanhoe school every morning. and blowing my 25 cents i had left from lunch on a video game at the triangle or the gas station across the street.
wow alot of stuff.
had a massive crush on Sunney Malone. Finally got to date her years later , screwed it up and she got rid of me.
Took my CHSPE the begining of 12th grade and graduated 6 months early.
after i took the test in November i think i spent the entire next 3 months in Mr Seaward's office ditching all my other classes. 72 days absent
The big thing i regret now is not focusing more on my studies. I love learning all i can now. I was too busy planning my big rise to fame as a musician like all people who are naive do.
I think one of the biggest mistakes was not dating Yvonne Morton. or Erica. wow i think back now and i could have dated some really nice ladies , but i was focused on Sunney only. I should have tried to date the extremely beautiful ones like Inga Richter or Michelle Macelroy or Tammy Winchell. but nooo i was too down on myself ha
I did awful in school. mainly for 2 reasons...3 reasons. 1) I had S.A.D. , social anxiety disorder. A VERY bad case that i will have forever. 2) I was focused on my dark and evil music alot more than any school work. so i would ace a class for the first half , then flunk the 2nd half due to not caring about the homework. 3) even more so was my crush on Sunney. I was beyond your average lovestruck kid. What i will always find funny is the fact Sunney live one street over from me , maybe about 150 - 200 yards away from the time i was 5 years old , and i never knew her until the day i saw her in high school.
Well , i would have to say , what i loved the most about school was Mr Seaward and choir. Let's see '85 saw me as a men's glee bass , then i was in men's glee as a bass and choir as a baritone , then the next year if i remember right .. I was a tenor in men's glee and a baritone in choir. (i used to think i could sing) Mister Seawrd gave me the best thing in music tho , the King's Singers. Whom i still listen to.
All in all , It was Mr Jeffry Alan Seaward as my fav teacher. Followed by Mr Renzi , but that was Junior high at Valley Oak.
College
well i got outta school early and went straight into a bunch of bands that had no chance in hades of going anywhere , even to a bar for a gig. alot of it had to do with me not wanting to be a cover band , screw that. So i went to college years later , Phillips Junoir College in Fresno. Those were the days . Wake up and be at work at Target by 4am , then get off work around noon , go to moms in Visalia and eat , leave for sk00l in Fresno , do school until 1am ish , then back to moms to pick up my car , then back out to where i was living (7 miles north of Visalia) then sleep alittle , then back at work at target around 4am and start over.
I was passed thru a class i didnt understand (I got involved with a woman from Fresno and goofed off on my work) so the day of the final i went to the "teacher" and said ...Expand for more
"hey i didnt understand this class at all. He said (and i quote) "well you have an hour to turn that final in so you better copy off of someone quick". I turned around , got in the truck , turned up Tiamat's "The Astral Sleep" as loud as it would go , and drove home. Much to my suprise , altho i turned in no final , and only about 5% of the homework , i was passed thru the class. I went to the next class and asked the teacher about not understanding the last class. He said (and i quote) "We're not trying to pound it in your head , we just want you to know where to find it in the book" I promptly went to the truck , turned up Dark Throne's "Soulside Journey" as loud as it would go , and went home , ne'er to return. I got a nice education from them on real life , and not what i paid , as of now , 19 grand to be learning.
they went bancrupt a few months later.
Workplace
hmmm -
my first ever job was every summer working in the fig fields at my grandparent's fig ranch. from the time i was really little. out there at 4am driving the tractor.
then when i was 15 i got a job thru Y.E.S. (Youth Employment Services) i got a position as an aide at a daycare for handicapped kids. but there were 4 kids in the class and 6 aides , so they sent me next door to the daycare for regular kids. 6 aides and about 30 kids. I remember there were 2 brothers , Mario and Luigi (I'm not kidding that was there names) and Mario was actually only 4 , 1 year too young to be in the class. He wouldnt go outside to wait for his mom at the end of the day unless i picked him up on my shoulders haha
'88 i worked at a laundramat. 40 bucks a week in cash.
then i worked at sizzler as a dishwasher , then at alpine station as a dishwasher / janitor / cook / ice cream dispenser / waiter...
then to Target at the snack bar / salesfloor / push team / pull team
Then to construction work (plumbing) with Leroy Hipp.
Then to Wal-mart for 9 years (up til august 2004) when i just up and quit. I wanted to take a year off and get into something i would rather be doing. Wally world is ok , but even tho they claim all the stuff about being for the associates , alot of it is bs. I went all the way to almost being a district manager. And i was shot down due to the fact i wanted to treat people like they were people , and not like they were just numbered cattle.
So i joined a friend with his company he was starting , as the lead programmer and game devolper. But he wanted me to program games that take 100 people 5 years to create and do it all by myself , so after a few months of no pay and the fact he didnt get it thru his head it would take ALOT more people , i left.
Back to Wal-mart. HEEE-UGE mistake. I was told i was being promoted back to managemnt , got all ready for it , was about ready to order my new recording set up for my music , and POW ... the 2 women who dressed like sluts got interviews for a promotion and the one i was TOLD i had never happened. The Store manager was demoted and removed from the store 2 days later. So after almost 1 year (missed it by 2 days) i quit.
Only to be hired by Bloomington Wholesale Garden Supply 2 days later. So i was out there in Goshen riding around on a very large forklift up about 40 feet in the air. Monday thru Friday 8am to 5pm , no stress. i hate to say it but SCREW wal-mart. The last thing i said to my overnight "managers" was "i am going to take everything wal-mart ever taught me and go use it for someone else".
then , July of 2008 , I moved. 600 miles to the north , Crescent Cty CA , 15 minutes from the Oregon border with ocean out my front door and redwood forest out the back. Finding a job here is getting annoying , but other than that , i am surrounded by my family. This town is kinda small so i think the prospect of finding a wife now is 100% gone , like i had a chance anyway. Update - I was a manager for Walgreens. But that went really bad really quick , so now I'm not working again. And who would have thought ,I gave up the job for the woman I was with and going to be with forever , and as soon as I did , she left. (It was her Idea for me to stop working there and move in with her)
Military
they wouldnt take me
i tried
they said i was too screwy even for them. (they must have heard me behind the drums)
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