Phil Nelson:  

Since high school my life has been one of climbing a glacier with bowling shoes on. Just kidding. After graduating it was as if everyone got on a bus and left Calgary. The class of 74 was gone. I have lived in Calgary the whole time and moved to Chestermere, AB in May, 2008. In 1975 I applied to the RCMP when I was working as a store detective at Woolco. I was told at the first tryout that I had the wrong personality and wasn't suitable for the RCMP. I talked to someone high up in the RCMP and he told me to go back and apply again and that I would be accepted. I didn't go back to apply again because my lifestyle had changed and they ask too many questions. My father told this person about my new lifestyle. This same person told me he was going to have a RCMP car follow me around Calgary for three months and I laughed. Who sees RCs in Calgary. He wasn't kidding. For three months I became an electrician with the clear mind that this was only temporarily and I worked at SAIT with the maintenance department until I become a journeyman electrician. First job I was at building the Calgary Herald building. In 1980 I went to the Calgary Board of Ed as an electrician. I applied to the fire department in about 1984 and was going thru the tests when I quit because I didn't like the starting wage. I continued on for about 10 years when I decided to become a commercial airline pilot. I became a private pilot and ended up meeting my second wife who changed my mind about living in the wilderness being a bush pilot. Second wife? The first was too short to mention and she ran...Expand for more