Dave Furlong:  

Life School: I spent my early years at Grace Christian School. Somewhere around the end of my Sophomore year of high school, I saw the light and left Phoenix Christian high school and spent my Junior year at Alhambra. It wasn't quite the ghetto then that it has become. Anywho, after high school I took some computer networking courses off and on at Glendale Community College from January 1993 until December of 2002. I'm on the 20something year plan. Slave Labor: I spent 10 years working in the printing industry operating large format commercial printing presses. In 1998 I left the printing industry and began working for a small internet provider. I cut my "dot com" teeth there for 4 months and in January of 1999 I began working for one of the Big Dogs of the era, MindSpring. In February of 2000 MindSpring and Earthlink merged but kept the name Earthlink. I threatened to leave Earthlink for the next 3 years while working as a Team Lead in the Broadband Network Support Department. In December of 2002, Earthlink finally took me seriously and closed their local office. Persistence pays. At that time I started my own business doing a variety of things, not the least of which was taking photos of auto races. It was a lot of fun and paid my rent and was great while it lasted. I had enough cash stashed away that I was able to do this for about a year before I had to go back to a real job. In November of 2003 I started working for a marketing company as a printing production consultant. I now manage all of the printing and production operation...Expand for more