Grant Jones:  

Oh what a story. It's a long, long one... Well, as most of you may remember, I was going to Citrus CC while at Sunflower and by the time I got to Charter Oak was going to UCLA. Unfortunately, my parents not degreed, and our wonderful counselor (I can't remember her name), no one made sure I got enrolled so I could get the credit. If I would have got credit & done the required general Ed. I'd have my PhD in computer sciences/electronics. So anyways, one day when I asked Mr. Schaeffer (Algebra Teacher) if I could come after school and go over his lecture because I didn't understand it, he blew me out, told me he didn't have time for me, etc. So in turn, having already been a computer programmer for IBM (my summer job '75), I didn't have time for them either and blew out the whole group, including high school overall. In hindsight not the best decision I ever made. Later on, I wound up working in construction that had it's beginnings in the tract of houses they built in the avocado grove to the east of the football field. Completed an apprenticeship by the time I was 19, heck 20 bucks an hour with a company car and gas card wasn't too bad for 1980. I mixed sound and provided technical support for a rock and roll band for a few years then a friend of mine's dad got his electrical contractors license, and I went back to what I did at Charter Oak Elementary, playing with wires. Well, I've now been in Electrical Contracting/Construction for 25+ years, wired everything but a nuke plant, was a partner in a 300 man shop, crashed on an ATC, airlifted to LLUMC in a coma, ripped off by the partners, but oh well, I survived and didn't loose my...Expand for more