Ernie Castelo:
CLASS OF 1974
Forrest Sherman High SchoolClass of 1974
Naples,
Dewey High SchoolClass of 1974
Subic bay,
Saint Thomas More SchoolClass of 1970
Washington, DC
Akers Elementary SchoolClass of 1970
Lemoore, CA
Binictican Elementary SchoolClass of 1968
Subic bay,
Ernie's Story
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After graduating from FSHS, I spent six years in the Navy and Naval Reserve. After that, I worked at two Southern California banks as Vice President of the SBA Department. It was interesting at first because I was learning about so many types of industries. But after ten years in the banking industry, I got bored. Every SBA loan package started to look the same, I was making the same presentations each week to the credit committee, making the trip to the local SBA office, and waiting six to eight weeks for an answer. So I left the financial services industry and took some classes in broadcast journalism.
One of my first stories got me hooked on my new career. I had to cover the Richard Nixon funeral in Yorba Linda, California. That was exciting! ...Expand for more
I knew I found the perfect career! I have not had a boring moment as a TV news anchor and reporter. But I soon found out that many news directors would rather have younger anchors and reporters. In order to look younger on my resume, I got another Bachelor's degree in 1995 and left my old one off my resume.
In between my careers in banking and broadcasting, I did take two years off and lived in Waldron, Arkansas on a 55-acre ranch. Anyone seen the movie, "City Slickers"? Yea, that was me. I did things I or anyone else would not have imagined me doing ... bailing hay, fixing barbed-wire fences, feeding cattle and of course, delivering a calf (It's gross!).
Anyway, I am still a broadcaster but I freelance for a few television outlets both foreign and domestic.
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