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