Jess Phillips:  

Since high school I attended Shasta College for one year majoring in partying, girl chasing and diesel mechanics. From there I moved on to Chester California And began working in a precision metal shop. After 4 years there I spent 2 years working in the San Diego area manufacturing aircraft parts and parts for the space shuttle. Also manufactured gauge panels for the power plant at San Onofre. I couldn't handle the big city life so I moved back to Susanville and worked for a summer in the woods for my father as a skidder operator and mechanic. I then moved back to Chester to work in the same manufacturing job for the next 12 years working as a shop foreman. In 1997 I moved to Grass Valley to take a job as a shift foreman at another manufacturing plant. In 1999 I was injured in an accident at work which pretty much ended my career in manufacturing.(didn't wa...Expand for more