Mel Douglas III:  

Life Wow, what can I say? Actually, what can I remember after 20 years!! Two years after graduating from Overland with a -1.5 GPA, I moved back east to Jersey to live with pops for a while. I got my first decent job doing drafting for a company in Manhattan. The plan at the time was to work for a year, then go to school in Indiana. Well, it didn't work that way! My son was born in 1990, so I had to put plans for school on the side for a minute. Besides, who would accept a negative GPA! Alright, just kidding about that, but anyway... Just worked and worked, learning design and CAD and all that stuff over the years. Went to tech school for 1 1/2 years before leaving for Western Michigan University in 95. I took a year off from working to concentrate on school, partying, and all that. I got involved in the solar car racing program there, and became the body design team leader for Sunseeker 97. I don't know what they saw, but I took it and ran! I enjoyed school and Kalamazoo for a while, then started working for another architectural/engineering firm as a mechanical designer. I dropped down to part-time with classes after a year of working there, it was too much. So, blah blah blah, years gone by, life as usual, work, school,... I left the company after 8 1/2 years hoping for something with a new firm. With the MI economy the way it is, finding a job there still is a challenge for a lot of people. I've met...Expand for more