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Edited on Thu Apr-17-08 03:50 PM by new_beawr
spent a year in a band and also earning money by singing at A Renaissance Fair and tending bar and shucking oysters at a restaurant, so next....
worked at a DC area Consulting firm for three years. Did contract work for the Dept of Energy, the Army and the CIA. I learned a lot at this place as well as drank a lot.
Quit that outfit and worked for three years at a pre-internet on-line information provider owned by Dun and Bradstreet who pulled the plug on this business, this is also the time I turned down a job offer from some guy named Steve Case for his goofy sounding outfit all the way in Virginia called America On Line.....D'OH.......so next
I sold Cable TV door to door for three months - lost about 40 pounds.....so next
Got a job with another DC area consulting firm on a contract for the Dept of Transportation performing analyses on Transit systems applying for their annual grants. Fought with my boss over bigotry and had one of the guys I supervised kill someone in the building, so I quit that job and tried to make money in Theatre.....that was about two years of directing, light design, voice work, temp work, courier work, general hustling for whatever cash I could scrape up - no insurance, no security. This is when my wife introduced me to her parents, you can imagine how thrilled they were with me.......so next
I got a job with another DC consulting firm. They paid my tuition for my MS in Computing and in the nearly six years I was there, my salary more than tripled. This firm, since bought by another larger firm, is where I was working when I got married and had my first two children.
I was recruited by a contractor to IBM in Somers NY while at the same time my wife was eager to move to New York to be closer to her family, so we moved to New York and I worked under contract to IBM for a year. In August 2001, my contract, along with all the others in that part of IBM were ended and I was out of a job, but I figured it wouldn't be for very long...then September 2001 came around, and the New York job market dried up considerable and at the same time, The Gartner Group laid off hundreds of Analysts, so I was in a lousy market. I was unemployed for a little over a year and a half. In the meantime I enrolled in a PhD program in Computing at Pace University. so next
In 2003 we decided to sell our place and go back to the DC area. I was working again for a DC area consulting firm within weeks. I am still with this firm.
So, I graduated 25 years ago, had all sorts of random work, basically heard how I had no focus for years and years, now I earn well into six figures, working at home. My In Laws now approve.........
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