Jim Gough:  

Life My gawd! Its been 54 years since I left Merritton High in St. Catharines and moved to Sir Adam Beck in London. And 49 years since I graduated from Ryerson! Sometimes it seems like yesterday -- where have the years gone -- if you look at my "now" and "then" profile pictures -- I guess the years went where my hair went! Believe it or not, after consistently screwing up languages, maths and sciences, I got wired on a data processing course and entered a 30+ year career in I.T. when I graduated Ryerson. I worked in the downtown Toronto construction zone when they put all those skyscrapers up. Every 6 months we had to find a new watering hole as they kept tearing buildings down. In 1980 I got caught in one of the first downsizings as Canada Permanent Trust got absorbed by Canada Trust. I wound up back in London with 3M. 17 years later ... another downsize. (While I was at 3M, I got my eyes straightened out. Check out the photos.) I landed at CGI and worked on Bell's Y2k project ... 35,000 PC's replaced and reconfigured in 2 years ... best job I ever had. Then the Y2K work ended, CGI downsized and the "tech wreck" happened. The I.T. job market went the way of the NASDAQ. Its been a scamble ever since. Even tried Primerica. Spent a year in a ...Expand for more