Jeff Fraser:  

Life Well, I was supposed to rich and retired by now but it didn't pan out that way. After high school I wanted to become a robotics engineer and start Fraser Robotics, the American empire that brought automation to every household and made me grotesquely wealthy. Trigonometry proved too tough so gave up on the engineering idea. Here's the synopsis from there... Was busing tables at Sizzler while at Chaffey, dishwasher attacked me, punched him in the mouth, got fired. Took job selling memberships at health club (19 yrs old), made money guilt-tripping middle-aged overweight people into getting in shape. Went in with Rich Day (ALHS) and bought house together- particularly cool because we couldn't legally drink but nobody to tell us no in our own house. Sold everything, moved to Atlanta to start business. Major flop, lost everything, returned to CA broke and sleeping on mom's couch. Demoralized, decided to go back to school, become physical therapist, lied on my resume to get job as Physical Therapist Aide job at Pomona Valley Hospital. Did that for 6 years during which I reconnected with love of my life, Misty Beidleman, got married and had boy #1. Came to terms with the fact that physical therapy was a bit too routine for my personality, left hospital to work in SF Bay area in political role for a charity, got relocated twice in 3 months, frustrated, told management to screw off, took job with new telecom company, kicked ass, made money, got screwed out of commissions, left them for independent company for shot at entrepreurial start. Company acquired by another company with shady leadership, stock frozen, nose-dive, 9 months of pain before I bailed with a few others to start our own company. New Company. Had boy #2, great 1st year, then 1st casualty of 9/11; consulting business destroyed. Suffering insued. Focused on automating telecom processes, built telecom brokerage, had boy #3, made a little money, suffered m...Expand for more