Robert Deluca:  

Hello! I am interested in knowing what you did after high school so I am adding my story below. I encourage you to do the same and put a PIC out there too ok..Please....:-) After high school and after spending the summers doing landscaping with Benny Benson, working at Lehman's Green House, Parker Auto and a short stint at Village Inn I worked for my Dads company for the first summer after high school. My parents divorced when I was 14 and they had little money for college. We sold the farm, all our animals and moved from the farm on Roundup (7 miles east of Parker) and moved to Parker Heights with Mom into a small home. I then worked as a heating and ventilation tech at the Parker Whirlpool and installed heating and ventilation systems in new homes in the Parker area. I worked with Jerry Beeman in construction doing framing and siding after that I worked with Larry Waymire at Union Power, power line construction for 3 months, dang that was hard work but got to fly in a helicopter to the side of a mountain and dig holes 12 foot deep and 3 foot wide using explosives and a shovel and bucket. Yeeks! My Dad lost the family company and I found a job at Winchell's and became a certified baker and then an assistant manager for 2 years. Then found a job at Subway working as an assistant manager. In early 1990's I found a job as a mail room clerk at a small HMO called Lincoln National via a temp agency next to Subway. We went thru some mergers and the office manager said she wanted me to program the AT&T phone system. I was pretty freaked out since I had not typed since high school and had no computer skills. They gave me a Pentium 100 and that was my first computer in 91. After a few mergers, I was told CompraCare already had a mail room so I was hired on in IT and sent to work with Rob the telecom tech at CompraCare. I was freaked out but my manager said "she had faith in me" and that I would do ok. (I owe her big time for that, my own father never said that to me). I quickly learned the AT&T phone system and was lucky to get all the training classes they offered. The IT group was big on training so I lucked out big time. This company was now PacifiCare and I had been with them 5 years. We had a new IT manager and I really did not like him so I looked for a job and found one at AmeriNet, a mortgage company as a telecom tech II. I was able to get their help buying my first home so Stacey and I bought a 900 SF home and moved out of Hickory Ridge. The new house was on Quincy and Buckley and we lived there for 5 years. After AmeriNet and during the big telecom de-regulation I went to work at ICG as a technical consultant to the sales group and worked there 2 years till they went bankrupt. I was hired on at EchoStar and worked there for 5 years. I worked 6 years at ...Expand for more