George Paine:  

I went to Kansas State University for a year and then returned to attend KCJUCO for a semester. I moved to San Diego, CA in 1973 with my folks. I attended Southwestern Junior College majoring in music. I began singing and playing music professionally around San Diego and met my wife Meg in 1975. We married in 1977. We moved to North Hollywood, CA in 1979 when I began a career in the studios. We started our family later than most and we are blessed with 3 sons. Ages 27,24 and soon to be 21. I began a career in the Motion Picture industry building sets for television and movies in 1979. First at Universal Studios for 2 yrs then I went to work in the Prop Shop at Disney studios on "Tron" (the first one) and continued my career at Disney until 1986. I worked in the Special Effects dept for Disney on "Deacon Street Deer", "Mr. Boogety" and "Something Wicked This Way Comes". I eventually left Disney to work on "Growing Pains" as construction foreman for about 5 seasons. Working in construction and special effects on various films and television during hiatus, . I left the film industry and studied computer technology for 2 yrs. In 1993 I went to work for Coopers & Lybrand, an accoun...Expand for more