John West:  

As a kid we moved around a lot so I never made long lasting friendship until adulthood though I felt I always had good friends in school. My favorite school was always Morton. I felt at home there. After I left school I had a number of jobs but did most of my time at Youngstown. Worked there twice before moving to Arizona at age 21. I eventually took an apprenticeship as a Gunsmith and worked at that for a few years and that technical training led me into the high tech industry and a company named Burr-Brown Research. Started out setting up repairing production equipment for the production of microchip devices. After a few years I was doing business as a freelance consultant and designer of various small pieces of equipment for companies in Tucson, Phoenix and San Diego. I held a job as a ...Expand for more