Randy Ancheta:
CLASS OF 1989
Nathaniel Narbonne High SchoolClass of 1989
Harbor city, CA
Randy's Story
Life
After Narbonne, I finished Airframe & Power Plant school to be an aircraft mechanic. Turned down an apprenticeship w/ Delta because I was too scared to leave LA for Atlanta, GA. Thought the folks out east were weird and didn't want anything to do with it (remember I was only 19)! Spent a couple years working a minimum wage job around home. Couldn't find work as an A&P mechanic (no experience). That got old, so a couple of buddies of mine thought moving out on our own to Sacramento, CA would be good for us (tried to work for United Airlines out of 'Frisco). Worked for Target Stores in Sacto for a couple years (where I met my future wife, little did I know...) before that also got old too. An Army recruiter walked in and offered to give me the experience I needed...ended up as an Air Traffic Controller maintenance tech instead, D'oh! It was still somewhat in the same field, maybe even more lucrative I thought. THEN I go to BASIC Training to, you guessed it, Ft. Jackson, SC with Advance Individual Training at Ft. Gordon, GA! The very state I av...Expand for more
oided because of my ignorance of how the "other" states would be to minorities. My 5 years of service brought me to Germany and Ft. Huachuca, AZ where I learned yet another trade, Telecom Installation. Hired by a telecom company, WilTel Communications, right out of the Army for my first real career job back in Sacramento, CA. After 5+ years with this outfit I had an opportunity at my current company, Boeing, to do the same type of work. I jumped at it of course even though the commute in NorCal was 65 miles one-way. Eventually an opening in Colorado Springs, CO became available to me so now the family and I reside in a nice suburb of COS with a nice short 15 mile commute. Ah yes, I guess it is never too late to go back to school so that's what I am doing now at *gasp* 37 years old (has it been that long?!?). Going for an Electrical Engineering degree which I probably should have done (or tried) when I was in the Army or right after HS. But noooo, I had to do it the hard way I suppose, with family and all. I guess I never learned as a young guy...
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