User:Hilltop hermit

Hello, I'm Mike and I currently (2024) live in Rockland County, New York with my wife Heather and our three cats.

I was born into a Navy family and had lived in 7 states by the time I was 5 (1970) when we settled in my mothers hometown of Canton, OH, where I was lucky to receive 12 years of excellent Catholic school education. A class in Arboriculture (aka "tree surgery") led to me relocating for a job in New Jersey, where I proceeded to:

-Quit tree work for Land Surveying

-Meet a girl and her sweet 2yo daughter

-Buy a house

-Get married

-Get laid off from Land Surveying

-find work as a household mover and as a courier driver

-Join the US Army Signal Corps (and rent out our house).

-Enjoy serving 2 years in Korea, and 4 in Panama where I: got deployed to both Honduras and El Salvador for a few months each, vacationed in Costa Rica, produced two more amazing daughters.

-Get laid off from the Army (and go back to our poor mistreated house)

-Land a great job at TCG doing microwave engineering simply because I had "radio on my resume"

-Work at the same desk while the company name changed three times and was bought by AT&T

-Get laid off from AT&T and almost immediately stumble into another microwave gig after randomly striking up a conversation with a cool guy at a mutual friends party

-grow professionally and get to travel on the company's dime around the country, to Singapore, and most awesomely, back to Korea for two extended trips.

-Get laid off from Nucomm/IMT -go through some super tough times personally & professionally

-Meet a nice girl

-Get my career back on track at Scientel, and enjoy spending many days traveling hilltops and backroads surveying tower sites, navigating forests, and measuring trees

-Buy a house

-Get married

-enjoy my first grandchild and expect another

-more to come