Brian Moss:  

Well, after 5 years of High School and summer school I actually got a diploma. It was only through the hard work and dedication of Ms. Darrigan and very little effort on my part. After that I went to Universal Technical Institute in Phoenix, AZ where I spent 13 months learning how to work on cars and diesel trucks. Within days of completing my training there I was back in Livermore working at Livermore German Auto. I worked there for almost two years learning my trade and nursing a fledgling drug addiction. The latter got the best of me and I was asked to leave. Soon after that I was looking for a job at the same time my next employer was looking for a Kubota tractor mechanic. I didn't know anything about tractors but I was the most qualified that he had found. So I became a tractor mechanic. It happened to be a perfect fit and over 20 years later I'm still fixing tractors. Of course I still had that annoying drug habit to deal with. Within a couple of years with this employer I found myself in that spot of realizin...Expand for more