Philip Carr:  

Hi all. Well, I was a bit wild back in 1955 when I was ask to leave Paramount Hi, and good riddance they thought. My Dad immediately got me a job as an apprentice Tooling Mechanic at Northrop Aircraft Company; the Paramount School District was happy to give me an underage work permit just so I would not return. As it turned out, it was the best thing for me in the long run. The professional work environment was an inspiration for me as well as a great challenge. I learned fast, worked hard, made some key transitions within the various work disciplines and was within five years at the top of the Tooling Mechanic job classification working at Aero Jet General in Downey CA. From that point on I discovered evening classes at Compton College and started attending night classes for the next five years, studying Tool Engineering. I graduated out of Cerritos College with a certificate in Tool Engineering in 1966. During the college years I continued my carrier in Aerospace Tooling by transferring into the Tool Design Department at Douglas Aircraft in Long Beach CA. From Douglas Aircraft I moved into the Small Business community, still Aerospace Tooling, and over the period of several years worked my way through the chain of command to Engineering Manager at Air...Expand for more