Brian Fitzgibbon:  

The decade that was the sixties was pretty amazing as it turns out, and it will continue to become even more so as we all get closer to being octogenarians. It's a shame that life is now so complicated and influenced more and more by 3 levels of government interference (in my opinion). Of course some government rules are fine but I think it has become too big to stop. After VP, I had a short career as a cartographer but when offered $600 more per annum to become a computer programmer, I left for the money to join Sears where I had aready been working part time. I helped to write the credit card system there and then remained in the various supervisory and management jobs until 1992 when I was uncerimonously layed off by Amdahl Corp. At this point I had to re-learn some of my technical skills in order to gain some kind of employment. At the end of my 6 month paid layoff, I managed to find a 2 month contract at Loblaws. Two months grew to 2 years and then my confidence returned. I obtained several contracts in the US and began commuting to Kansas City and Cleveland Ohio from my ...Expand for more