Tim Walker:
CLASS OF 1983
Central High SchoolClass of 1983
Davenport, IA
Tim's Story
2012: Journeyman electrician licensed in Colorado. Will also test to license in Wyoming. Going to travel and chase money for a couple of years, unless I settle in Durango, where I'm currently working. Just cancelled my Classmates renewals. If you're looking for me, I keep a mildly active profile on Facebook.
The full nutshell, from 1983: Went to school in Iowa City. Thought derisive thoughts about all those losers in socks and sandals who obviously failed to leave Iowa City. Got a botany degree in 1988. Tried to leave Iowa City in 1990. Failed. Returned. Got an English degree (MFA, nonfiction writing) in 1999. Stayed in town. Worked hard for the university, as an uncredited functionary. Grew frustrated with white-collar life, but stuck it out for years. Married in 2003 (we met at the vet in 2001); moved to Colorado in 2006. Began electrician's apprenticeship in April 2007. Never enjoyed work more. Gained Journeyman's license in 2012...Expand for more
. Still enjoying the work. Big pay cut but big happiness increase. Divorcing in 2012, amicably. Our lives are taking us in different directions.
Surprising life change: after failing as a vegetarian, bought a firearm and took up hunting ~2000. Now I'd go back to rice and beans, but for the joy of watching my Vizsla doing his perfect thing pointing birds. I'm not nearly as good a shot as he is a pointer, but he's not nearly as bad a trash talker as, say, a fellow construction worker.
I've had three pony tails in my life so far; cut off the first one for a tool-and-die apprenticeship interview back around 1998, shaved off the second one (act of mourning) after Bush stole the election from Gore, and cut off the last one after having been in Colorado a while and growing tired of getting the stinkeye from white guys in big cowboy hats. So now, instead of pulling my hair back to protect it, I have to put sunscreen on the growing bare spot.
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