Wendell Syvertson:  

Life About a year after High School, I went to Alaska for the summer. 15 years later.... I didn't make many visits "outside" during those years. While living up north I tried my hand at several different types of work. Everything from fishing, to building houses, to heavy construction. I even spent 1 summer working on the Alaska railroad. I eventually got interested in Land Surveying, and worked at this for several years. I enjoyed this work very much as it gave me a variety of challenges, and excellent opportunities to travel. I visited several rural Alaska communities, some of the Aleutian Islands, and the north slope oil fields. It also allowed me to take time off to hunt, fish, and ski. In 1986 I had an opportunity to go to New Hampshire. I spent the next few years living in Nashua. I saw a lot of New England (a bit of Canada (Montreal mostly) and a too short visit to Washington DC.), picked up a funny accent, and decided some place sunny was next. So off to Arizona. After a year of enjoying the Arizona sunshine I returned to Eureka to attend the electronics program at CR. For the next two years I worked very hard and was rewarded with an interview with Hewlett-Packard. In 1993 I started working at the HP site in Corvallis, Oregon as a technician on one of the high volume inkjet pen manufacturing lines. After a few line transfers to Puerto Rico I decided it was once again time for a change...Expand for more