Jon Caplan, Craft Talk
Posted by Wes Bradford
on Oct 06, 2015
Jon Caplan, one of our newest members, grew up in Palos Verdes, attending Malaga Cove Elementary School and Rolling Hills High School. He attended USC and became an English major (to be in class with his girlfriend), and he worked on the student newspaper, The Daily Trojan. He graduated during a recession and was out of work for 6 months before finding a job in Compton. His mother was a Special Ed Teacher, so he decided to become a substitute teacher in Special Ed, which no one else wanted to do.He was a longtime auto enthusiast, and managed to arrange an interview with a talented car designer in Wilmington who was president of his company, and who hired Jon as a personal assistant. This seemed like a dream job, but the company developed management and legal problems associated with the president, who was eventually forced out of the company. The company became affiliated with Lamborghini, which moved Jon to a job in Florida. More company politics there caused him to leave after 6 months and return to California.