David Green:  

I really have no idea as to why anyone I went to school with would miss me. Cuz' like .... I really do not miss any of them. Is anyone really interested ??????....... look me up on the great BOOK of FACEs..... My present career opportunity IS in the same field as I chose in my teen years and it, at times, takes me far afield. As I write this, I am sitting in hotel room in Sudbury, Ontario, overseeing the night shift crew on the rebuild of a ball mill in one of INCO's plants... I thought about what got me here. I had already been playing with tools of the trade for all my formative years and, upon finishing with high school, I discovered that I could be well paid doing the same thing. I had a welding ticket before turning 19 and, for several years I worked in heavy construction. I became a certified millwright in 1978 & I went on to become lead millwright in a plywood mill; working there for 25 years until the industry tanked. I was able to draw on my past experience in the heavy construction industry & I landed a job as a field engineering technician with my present employer, METSO, a global supplier of equipment for the mining industry (as well as many other industries). I made the great escape from the Lower mainland in 1979, buying areag...Expand for more