Ronald Moran:
CLASS OF 1976
Buffalo Grove High SchoolClass of 1976
Buffalo grove, IL
Ronald's Story
Well if any of you remember me..You'll know that my biggest event in HS was that I overdosed in my junor year....And yes it changed things...( thou I still smoke pot!.it helps w/ my arthitis)...went on to EIU and graduated PSY CHI in Psych. After that; Reaganomics got me laid off from my social work job...Best thing to happen to me...A college buddy got me a job working in the IT field. Printing junk mail . If you could beleave it...Went on to work for Corp. Walgreens on their Intercom Phamacy mainframe..(remember this is all before PC's and Microsoft. ) This led to corp. jobs with Piemont airline, USairlines, Chicago board of options and American airlines. AA was the highlight of my career..this I worked in Tulsa in the biggest computer center in the world. I am NOT joking. It has 23 IBM Mainframes and over 25,000 hard drives in 2002. And get this it was under the tulsa airport runway underground and nuke proof. We were designated a US air force fallback facility and had blast doors.. Greatest job I ever had..we controls 2/3's of...Expand for more
the world airline reservation system. At the time I also got into midrange comp's. and assisted in inventing Travelocity.! I even got a gnome for my desk. Well then 9/11/2001 happened ...9 months later all 700 of us were laid off and the facility was outsoursed to India....hardware still in tulsa they just run it lights out remotely from there. Still hate those guys today. Oh yea...got married in 1995 and were still at it 24 years later..no kids ...there was a tumor...so we have puppies.!!!!
Went on to work for ATT in scottsdale AZ selling 'I' phones....the comission the 1st year paid off my house. Moved on to live in Cape Coral FLA and worked part time in a call center. getting ready to retire....I also invested 250,000 in canadian marijuna stocks in 10/2016, bought CGC at 2.00$ and sold at 42.00$....... you do the math..........and all I can say is...........
"Yes as a matter of fact I AM a marijuna millionare.."....... I now live in Tarapoto Peru with my wife and 4 dogs And yes I took the $$$$$ and ran...................
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