Wes Peters:
CLASS OF 1979
Layton High SchoolClass of 1979
Layton, UT
Weber State UniversityClass of 1984
Ogden, UT
Ohio State UniversityClass of 1983
Columbus, OH
Wes's Story
Life
Since graduating from Layton High, I've attended school at Ohio State University and then Weber State University, where I earned a BS in Computer Science, and graduate classes at South Dakota Tech and Utah State University.
I've lived in Seattle, central California, Massachussetts, Rhode Island, and South Dakota, moving back to Utah several times. I married Diane Jefferson, from Elko Nevada, in 1992. My daughter Bailey was born in Salt Lake city in 1996. In 2002, after the job market in Utah completely dried up, we escaped to sunny San Diego, where we live now.
Through almost no fault of my own, I'm now the IT Director for a small options trading company in the San Diego area. I know next to nothing about trading commodities, but the people I know do, and they're very very good at it. I just make their computers do what they need them to do. Being a trader on the west coast is weird, because we work market hours, so trading starts at 5:30 a.m. for us. Yes, there really is a 5:30 in the morning too.
I own a pair of sailboats, a small cruising boat and a small racing yacht, which I don't spend enough time on. I bicycle with friends in the local mountains year round for fitness and recreation, crashing only occasionally.
Living in San Diego is weird. This is one of the most beautiful places in the USA, and I've seen a lot of it. The people here are great, it's like this little corner of California where it's actually OK to think, but they are...Expand for more
still Californians so they still tend to think of the rest of the world as under-privileged for not living here. In a way they're right.
Our apartment in San Diego was destroyed by the Witch Creek Fire in Oct 2007. This is not an experience you can put into words, even with a couple of years to try. Pictures can't convey how hard it is to have literally everything you've accumulated in life ripped out from underneath you in a single terrifying morning. But the only thing you can do is pick up and go on, so we did.
On the 1 year anniversary of the fire, we closed on our new home in the city next door, Escondido. It's a beautiful home, finished just as we bought it, and we're still getting used to how much space we have. It's 3 times the size of our apartment, and though we don't have the lovely canyon view out the back we had in San Diego, we're still nestled right into the mountains.
Pictures of both the fire and our new home are available in my Flickr photostream, search for the username softweyr. Yes, that's a weird spelling, ask me about it when you see me.
Life is still a challenge. I imagined it would get easy at some point, but I haven't found that point yet. My daughter is 13 now, maybe that point will happen when she goes off to college, or when she graduates. I hope it gets easier sometime soon, I'm getting too old for all this bling.
I hope the rest of you from LHS Class of '79 are doing well. I hope to see all of you at the re-onion.
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