Darrell McCarroll:
CLASS OF 1977
Leto High SchoolClass of 1977
Tampa, FL
Southern Illinois University - Workforce EducationClass of 1995
Carbondale, IL
Darrell's Story
Life
Life is a long strange trip.
I joined the Navy during my senior year in high school. The Navy sent me to Georgia Tech for a couple of years, and I proved to be a better sailor than student. Back on active duty, and I managed to sail around the world twice. West to east, and east to west. I retired from the Navy in 1999 and kept working in my same job, but as a contractor. Yep, a beltway bandit. In three years, I worked for three different companies without changing desks.
I worked in Arlington, VA from 1997 to 2005. I was at the Navy Annex on 9/11, and I heard the crash and saw the damage to the Pentagon. Life in the DC area lost a lot of its appeal that day. By November...Expand for more
2005, I'd had enough of two-hour commutes. My company had a position open up in NW Washington state, and I begged for it. My family and I moved here in early-2006, and we haven't looked back since.
Life is beautiful. The Pacific NW is the most perfect place in the world to me. I can literally look out one window at snow covered mountains, and out another at kids splashing in the Puget Sound. I live in a town that is big enough to get what we need, but small enough to park in front of the stores. A bad commute is a day when I don't see the bald eagles. My family really feels at home here. I fully believe that if God really walked on the face of the earth, this is where he did it.
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