Alan Swanson:  

its for my major or minor, but I got a few generals from it, and a crap load of memories. So that’s about it for college news. Oh, I will be graduating in December of 2005. Workplace Work; There's nothing else quite like it. Why would anyone want to know about my past/present work history? I guess this is just more of a way to relieve 5 years of stress by venting about job horrors and such. However as there may actually be someone who is reading this who really would want to know what work I've been doing, this is for you. My first job was at the newly opened PI A&W. I flipped burgers. Did that for about a year and a half. Once that was over it was off to PI Fiesta Foods (that's the former name of Bruce's Food Pride to anyone who didn't already know). I stocked the shelves and washed the floors. This didn't keep me interested very long. I think I held that job for a few months at most. Finally after graduation in '99 I was able to get a job at the Mayo Clinic working with a piece of Simulation Modeling Software called MedModel. I stayed at Mayo for the next 5 years (summers only). Each year I was given other duties such as web development and other miscellaneous IT jobs. It was a pretty good job, but it wasn't an internship, which was a requirement for college Graduation. This led me to search for a more programming-oriented job. I tried at several places in Spring '04, but filed to get any takers. Finally in Spring '05 I was offered a co-op position at IBM doing programming. This is where I am today. In fact, I'm writing this in my office (not cubical!) because it is a Friday afternoon and I don't have much of anything to do. That covers my entire work history with the exception of the part time job I had my entire college career (during school months) which was driving a 15 passenger van around campus. It's sort of a campus cab service, mainly for lazy people and drunks. Seriously what do they expect, it's called the "Red Eye Shuttle" for crying out loud. Anyway, it was a fun but seriously annoying job. Met a lot of interesting people if nothing else! Okay, now I am really done. If you are still reading this I hope you were not disappointed! Thanks for stopping by.