Gary Gorczyca:  

attitudes of some students who thought they were better than others. I tried to be nice and friendly to everyone from the smartest to the learning disabled. I would intervene when people were picking on "the albino" and the "dunc". I gotta laugh, we all thought it was so important back then! :) boy were we wrong! Workplace In a nutshell, after I graduated from college in 1983 with a BS in Petroleum Engineering, I moved from Socorro, New Mexico to Houston, Tx. The job market in petroleum engineering was at its worst ever, so after 6 months in Houston I moved back to Connecticut. I briefly worked in the heavy construction trades. maybe 9 or 10 months. I saw a career counselor, took some psych tests and found out that my interests were teaching and / or computers. Armed with that knowledge, I went to Computer Processing Institute in East Hartford CT. It was a vocational school. The most valuable thing about that school was it had a three day seminar about how to look for a job. Coming from a blue collar lower middle class family and being the first in my family to get a Bachelor's degree, I had no clue on how to look for a white collar professional job. After graduating I sent out 100 resumes, had a ton of interviews and was offered five different entry level programming jobs (Aetna, Traveler's, Mass Mutual Insurance, Associated Spring and some Bank). I worked 7 years as a programmer / systems programmer at Aetna EBD in Middletown CT. I moved to New Mexico and became a computer consultant. In the past 10 yrs I have worked at Honeywell Defense Avionics (3 times), Blue Cross of NM, Sandia National Labs (where our nuclear bombs are being stockpiled), The State of NM Child Support Enforcement and Taxation and Revenue Department. I made a killing during the Y2K crisis. I recently had a back operation go awry and I am on Long Term Disability as a result. I am now going to college again and hope to work on a Master's in Anthropology.