Jay Haygood:  

After high school I went to Gordon. College just didnt fit with me. Boring stuff over and over again so I only dabbled in it. I joined the Air Guard in October of 1984 and left for basic training in February 1985. I wanted to do something like communications or something but I am color blind. I didnt even know! Anyway I failed all those color tests so I had to do something else. So I became an Engineer. Cool career field back then. I learned construction engineering, drafting, and survey. I felt that would give me three things to get a job in when I got out. And I was right. I got hired on by Georgia Power in 1986 at Plant Scherer. But I didnt want to just hang around here. I wanted something bigger. So I took the nuclear power tests and passed them and transfered to Plant Hatch in Vidalia, GA. I actually met my future wife the weekend before I left for Hatch while in Atlanta. We kept up a long distance relationship until she graduated nursing school at Georgia State University in Atlanta. I asked her to marry me on the same spot we met one year later. Romatic or what? We decided that Georgia Power was a big company and I could transfer to Atlanta and we could marry there. She was a city girl at that time and was just starting out nursing at Egleston Children's Hospital. So I transfered to downtown Atlanta in the mapping section. This leveraged the survey part of my military service. After a short time I transfered to the Engineering section. I drafted and did engineering work so that leveraged the other two parts of my Air Force work. So I chose wisely...<GRIN> Kathie and I married in October 1988 in Forest Park and we moved to Stone Mountain where we had our first child, Ben. In 1991 we had our second son, Erik. From there we bought our first house in 1991 in Lithonia and moved. Unfortunately during the downsizing of 1993 I was laid off from Georgia Power. No good reason, they were just cutting people. I still harbor resentment at that company for their poor choice. I was out of work for 8 months before I got a job at Georgia Baptist Hospital in Atlanta. I joined Georgia Baptist in the Information Systems department as a microsystems support analyst. Remember back in 1993 computers were still just in their infancy relatively speaking. We had big iron IBM mainframes but only about 100 PCs. From 1993 until 1996 I personally installed over 800 PCs at GBH. I fixed everything from IBM PC JRs...Expand for more