Martin Briseno:  

Life As you can see, I have attended a number of schools during my lifetime, starting with Garfield, Roosevelt, Humboldt, Mechanic Arts, Blue Earth, Huntley, Rasmussen, University of Minnesota, and the Minneapolis Technical Institute. In addition, since I only attended Mechanic Arts the last several months of high school prior to graduating, I consider Humboldt my high school. My last year of high school was somewhat difficult considering I was focused on finding out who I am, as well as a number of questions regarding my sexuality but that is another story. My jobs range from farm worker, carhop, factory worker, circuit board assembler/welder, file clerk, concession stand worker at HHH Metronome, go-go dancer, clerk typist, secretary, legal secretary, and now a senior administrative assistant for a federal banking regulatory agency in there Legal Division. In the nursing field, I worked at every major hospital in the Twin Cities and San Francisco, and even Cedar Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles working in various departments, e.g., emergency rooms, coronary care unit, medical care unit, adult/child psych wards, ambulance, recovery room, burn unit, pediatrics, private duty, and even a few nursing homes. I did attend the University of Minnesota for a number of years thinking of becoming a nurse but did not graduate and may be I will do something with all those credits. In the mid 70's I visited a friend and his wife for several months that lived in San Jose, CA who showed me around San Francisco, which was a lot different from St. Paul. In the late 70 moved to Hollywood (only a block and a half from Grauman’s Chinese Theatre), stayed with my brother for about a year, and met many nice people, which was great. I got a job right away working at Cedar Sinai Medical Center in West Hollywood in the coronary care unit monitoring the telemetry and interpreting EKGs fo...Expand for more