Scott Saylors

Wow, what an adventure. After High School, I continued my studies at Arkansas Tech for a few semesters majoring in “Sex Drugs and Rock-n-Roll”. I continued playing that chrome drum set, for those of you who remember, in various bands until mid 1986 when my girlfriend turned up pregnant…. “I know, slow start, don’t hang up yet, it gets better”. I’ll never forget that conversation in the driveway with my dad when he asked a question that changed my life. “Well son, what are you going to do now”? As complex as that question may seem, by the end of “That Conversation”, we had concluded that shipping me off to military school was probably my last shot at society’s definition of success. Not to say I wasn’t feeling pretty successful with myself, just that mom and dad weren’t seeing it that way and were actually hinting around about breaking my dinner plate…….. “Go Figure”

The Navy…..fortunately, I had enough technical studies at Tech to test out and qualify for the Navy’s Nuclear Training Program. I spent the next two years in classrooms and nuclear prototype facilities educating myself…. “I Can Learn!?!?!?!?” The Navy’s way was amazingly simple; keep your nose clean and learn nuclear physics, or swab the decks of a mine sweeper in the middle of the Persian Gulf. The Navy was a six year hitch taking me out of the small world of Russ-Vegas to Orlando FL, Saratoga Springs NY, San Francisco CA, all the way around the world bagging four continents along with various islands throughout the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans, ending an incredible journey in 1993, Norfolk VA.

While in the Navy, I married twice and divorced once. My first wife (Kim Mac) gave me an amazing son; Austin Scott Saylors ….We didn’t realize the acronym of his initials would be carved into picnic tables ( I Love _ _ _ ) until after the fact…My second wife (Tonya Byers), the pregnant girlfriend mentioned above…(figure that one out)…and the mother of my beautiful daughter Jessica Lauren Saylors, joined up with me in Norfolk VA in 1990 toting Jessica and 4 more babies…. .Josh, Cody, Brittany, and Shay!

After the Navy (1993), I hired on at The South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Company located south of Houston on the Gulf of Mexico. I continued my college studies completing a Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Engineering Technology and currently am licensed by the federal government (NRC) to operate the facility along with its nuclear reactors…. Yep, your worst fears have come true….. “Scott Saylors at the controls of a Nuclear Facility”.

As for now (2009), all the kids are still calling me “Dad” and are either in college or some sort of trade school defining the successes of my life. My second wife and I are celebrating the third year of “Our Divorce”, and I am fortunate in having parents that still reside in Russellville in the same house in which I was raised..… I return several times a year, “email me, we’ll do lunch”….. For fun, I do a lot of traveling. I live with philosophies such as “Living in the Now” and “Working to Live”. With that implied, I pretty much go through life happy go lucky and/or by the seat of my pants……except while at work of course…… I’m one of those guys you’ll find doing just about anything your typical adrenaline junkies are engaged in with an emphasis on the great outdoors and all that it offers.

I hope that all is well with all that read and that some of us may meet again,

Scott