Jon Jones:  

Life I have really gone places...I live several hundred feet from where I grew up :) There has been a Jones on the farm for over 100 years...I figured no point in messing it up now. I went to School of the Ozarks after high school long enough to figure out I wasn't art major material. I wanted to get into the aviation program down there, but couldn't afford it. Just as well. I then traveled with a Carnival for a few months airbrushing T-shirts...boy, was that a wierd time. Then I went to work for a company installing communications equipment. In 1992, I lost my dad to a heart attack. The older I get, the more things I think of I wish I could ask him. In 1993 I married Ella Mae Risher. I continued to work on the road, but after a few years of long distance marriage, quit the phone biz and came home. I had no job, so went to work selling car parts. Then, as luck would have it a few months later, a temp position opened up 30 mins from home designing kids shoes. I was finally able to make a living doing something I loved to do...and I didn't have to travel with a carnival to do it! I have been there going on ten years now...I hope it turns into a full time position ;)The name of the company is Trimfoot. If you Google it, Their website has a picture of my oldest son on the homepage- He's wearing our "School Issue" shoes that we market to private schools. In 1998 I became a dad, which is strange, on account of I STILL am not grown up myself. Ethan Garrett Jones came into the world the day we poured the foundation on our house. The sheetmetal on our roof (which was bought months later) was dated as being stamped out on the same exact day also. Am I the only person that thinks this is all a little strange? Anyway, Ethan is a cool kid...he likes to draw, is into science, but ma...Expand for more