Thomas (Tom) Mitchell:  

Life After Graduation in 1978, I joined the US Air Force, and stayed in for a little over 14 years. I've traveled a big part of the world while in the military. I've been stationed in and/or traveled to many places around the world. I think the count is now at about 6 or 7 times around the world now since I left High School. I served during Desert Sheild/Storm while in the Air Force. I was a "Crew Chief" on the smaller fighter aircraft while I was in the military back then. I've been married and divorced twice, and I have two daughters from the first marrage. I now live back in the LA area with a house still in Tucson, Arizona as well. I have worked at UNITED AIRLINES both in the San Francisco Bay area, and in Los Angeles, California. I work at LAX on the ramp as a Gate Mechanic for UNITED AIRLINES. I was furlowed from United in 2001 and after working in the Middle East and in Tucson for work, I have now recently returned back to UAL in Los Angeles. I am staying in the South Bay of LA for now but still owning a house in Tucson and until I rent it out, I am a bi-state kinda guy at the moment. That's easy for me since flying back to Arizona is only a matter of showing up and getting on the plane! The best thing about working for an airline, I think! School I just remember school as a place that I had to go because it was the law or something. In hind site, I should have applied myself better to set myself up for real life. There were a few teachers there who saw my potential, but I chose to not do anything about it and I now regret that. If I had it all to over again, I would go and really knuckle down to what I should have done in the first place. Maybe I would be flying jets now instead of fixing them. I had a few crushes like any one did, but I chose then and now to keep them to myself to avoid the embarrassing situations that would come up. I was never very good in that department at all. Sometimes I wonder though, what I would have done different and how t...Expand for more