John Fletcher:  

After WCHS I went on to USAF, where I spent two tours in SEA (Thailand). When I returned to Illinois, I went to work as an Insurance Agent, for a company then moved on to be an Independent Agent. While working with my agency, I went back to school. After just a little over 18 years in the Insurance business, I sold my agency and switched to Computer Consulting full time in 1987. I've been in this field ever since, working as the CTO of a large Religious Organization, then IT Director at several other non-profits, and most recently as the IT Director for a Charter School District in Chicago, nearly 2000 students at four schools, three ES and one HS. I retired three years ago, I consider myself Semi-retired. In the meantime, I continued my consulting business, and now sell a great telephone system, and I've been lucky enough to sell to some really well-known clients around the US. I've been cutting back on work for the last two years. I'm doing more and more Volunteer work, more on that later. I like to travel and have been to 48 of the 50 states and would like to visit the last two soon, then start over. I like International travel too, I've been lucky enough to have visited many countries, and some a couple of times, such as Thailand. I must say Thailand is my favorite. I'm ready to go back and even looked into moving there for retirement but decided to stay here and continue to work but with a reduced workload. I've lived in Kentucky, Michigan, Colorado, Arkansas, Texas, Wisconsin, and keep coming back to Chicago. I moved back to Wheaton a couple of years ago., last year I decided that the suburbs were too expensive, and found a house south of I-80, I...Expand for more