Phil Collett:  

"Background of Life's Work In High School." I commuted to Cal State, taking business courses after graduating with a BS in Mathematics while working 44 hrs a week. I studied Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at San Jose State into my senior year, then I changed my interest and graduated with a degree in Mathematics. I was able to utilize skills from industrial engineering in corp. Division of trucking firm PIE, mechanical background in miscellaneous equipment requiring piping and design, and mathematics for calculating survival of constructional and enclosures surviving explosions like the Gillette facilities where manufacturing of erasable ink pen solution is dangerous, and emergency equipment enclosures require adequate ventilation—provided senior chief estimating cost skills and senior project manager for significant public works projects, light-rail, gov't projects, airports, correctional facilities and court houses, schools, supercargo naval ships, VA and Kaiser Permanente hospitals, amusement parks like Disneyland and Universal Studios. Life's travel involved crisscrossing the USA at least four times, traveling most of Canada and its museums. In the US, I visited many museums and art galleries, 35 state capitals, historical sites like Jamestown and civil war sites, presidential homesites, artist homes and studios like John Aubun's home, Norman Rockwell's home, along with visiting early frontiersmen and settlers' home like Jessie James home where he was shot, Native American sites and Babe Ruth's house. We visited great sports-oriented museums such as the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY, the Football Hall of Fame, and the Basketball Museum, seeing videos of famed players. We visited several buildings like the Smithsonian Museum in DC and music halls of fame museums like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland and the Western Country Music and Early Big Bands Hall of Fame in Memphis, TNN. Traveled to parts of Eur...Expand for more