James Ross:  

Life I am currently living in Jakarta, Indonesia. How did I end up there? It is a long story. Sit back and read a spell. Where to start... I spent quite a few years after high school goofing around trying to go to college and figure out what I wanted to do with my life. After the Cold War ended with the fall of the U.S.S.R, the demand for aerospace engineers (my chosen major) declined. I wavered in that choice and dropped out of college. I worked a bunch of small jobs in/around Minneapolis/St Paul Minnesota while contemplating my future. When I think about that time, a song comes to mind "Life in a Northern Town" in which you will hear the line: "... Took a year off of college and never went back." While I was trying to set a course on life, I joined the Air Force Reserves and got to visit England and Panama. In the summer of 1991, I moved down to Southern California to live with my good buddy, Trent Baker. He was in the Navy and was stationed at Miramar in San Diego, California. I worked a bunch of odd jobs there (cleaning windows on the skyscrapers of downtown San Diego, security, etc.) while trying to figure out what I really wanted to do. I ended up taking a job with TRW-Technar in Irwindale, California. I started as an engineering technician working on airbag sensors in the R&D department. Eventually I moved into the crash-test analysis department. TRW ended up moving its crash-test operations to Michigan and I chose to remain in California. I accepted a job as a record/scanner operator for a post-production facility in Hollywood. I got to work in film industry and see my name up on the big screen. Have you seen the Matrix films "Revolutions" and "Evolutio...Expand for more