Eric Garcia:  

Life As of December 2005, I am recently divorced. It's a tricky balance between working too much and not enjoying life enough as it is with the reverse. You'll never hear a man say on his death bed, "I wish I had worked more" but I guarantee many of them will say, "I wish I had enjoyed life more." I'm now reversing that trend of working too much and now I'm enjoying life more. I have 3 sons, Brandon, age 10, Anderson, age 8, and Carson, age 3. I also have a beautiful girl dog named Madison, a 4 yr old Dalmatian. I work for Gulfstream Aerospace Corp in Long Beach where I'm one of the two upfront sales design engineers. Our jets are the Rolls Royce/Ferrari's of the jet world. Our customers are A-list celebrities, leaders of nations, corporate CEO's and some of the world's wealthiest people. I work with the sales executives and clients on the upfront design of their custom aircraft. I personally meet with our customers and create on CAD their original custom jet interiors. I've convinced the customer program managers that on the most custom jets it is necessary for me to fly on the customer acceptance flight in order to verify and document the completed aircraft so that my upfront designs match the delivered aircraft. After 9/11 it's become very strict who gets onboard these jets so coming up with a legitimate reason gets me onboard for a nice flight in a brand new 45 million dollar private jet. Not a bad day considering I get paid to do it along with the free meals. The 1st week after high school I went to work for Lockheed Aircraft Corp. ...Expand for more