Dan Klima:  

OK, I'm going to try and avoid boring you with a bunch of drivel. Life just doesn't go as one plans, or so it seems. Since good old Central High I tried my hand at Electrical Engineering at UNL - not really what I had in mind. So after floundering for a bit, I thougth I had better recharge my batteries and do something that I actually liked. So I changed my major to Art. Did well with that, but what could I do with an Art degree? Well, I could teach - my family was in education and I really didn't want to go there. Or I could be a starving artist - also not sounding like a great idea. So while I was trying to decide what to do, I ran out of money. So much for college. Off to work I went. While floundering again, but this time in the job market, I went back to school in the evenings for Electronics Technology - a much better fit. Found a wonderful woman (some of you may remember her as Mary Steiner - class of '77) to spend the rest of my life with and to have two great kids - David and two and a half years later Liz. Got a job with a computer store as their Service Manager. I then started teaching computer classes for them (I know, I know! I said I wouldn't go there, but the money was good). Then I became their Learning Center Manager. Left the retail environment (thank god!). Then opened up a training center for another company. Seeing what they were making off of me I decided to leave and start my own training company with a friend of mine. We did that for about 3 or 4 years - growing from just the two of us to having 8 employees - before I decided to leave . . . . . . Eventually ended up at UNO running the networks for a d...Expand for more