Ricky Pritchard:  

CLASS OF 1979
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Manhattan beach, CA
Manhattan beach, CA
Lawndale, CA
Lawndale, CA
Torrance, CA

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Life Well I'm just a busy guy. Running my own businesses. Taking care of my mom and searching for friends and old girl friends. Hey! I maybe getting old but I can still cut the mustard. In my younger years I was dirt biking and tearing up the sand dunes then I got serious. Became a supervisor, a machinist, a co-partner in a business, a security officer & investigator, now I am running 4 businesses. I am still at the same old address since 1974. My careers I have meet and worked with some familiar people such as Larry Hagman, Ruth Buzzi, Stella Star, Cheri Taylor, Lois Ayres. I have worked closely with L.A.P.D. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal Aviation Administration. School I was out of school more than I was in school. Most part it was BORING. I would rather work on cars than attend school. I was rebuilding carburetors at 14 and rebuilding engines by 18. Go figure. The thing I would change if I had to do over again is pay attention to the girls and not the cars or motorcycles. There was a few girls that I wanted to get to know but was afraid to approach them now I am wondering what if. If I had found one I may have not wasted some much time on building the skills I developed and lost them with my injuries from the security job. Workplace I machined parts for the first Space Shuttles, the Challenger & Columbia. I machined parts for the first 30 Hum-V's "Hummer" for the military. Th...Expand for more
en I became a Truck Driver, driving 10 to 16 hours a day 5 to 7 days a week till I through my back out. I went into partnership with a family member in the Video Rental & Sales Business. We closed the business after a bigger chain store moved in. I freelanced as a "jack of all trades" through my back out again. Then I became a security officer posted at LAX for Fed Ex. till I was injured on the job, I moved into the main office in Burbank where I was doing investigations and back ground checks. Now I work for my self. Taking it slow and easy. You work hard on building skills in the work place and one day it happens, BAM all the the skills gone down the drain. My rehab included Offset Printing and Computer Graphics. Now if I see some one working to hard I tell them "one day it's going to bite you right in the A**" Added: May 9th. 2016 I closed all of my online businesses April 2015 due to the bad economy. My businesses took a bad economic hit September 2008 and a bigger bad economic hit August 2014. Now at age 57 I am retired without the benefits. My Mother passed away January 2013 and it has been hard. I was offered a security job in Perris Ca. I was working on a trailer out there but another person took it and now no place to live out there. I now have a girlfriend. We have been going together since October 2014 and she is the love of my life. We make each other happy when we are together.
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