Doug Brown:  

After high school I went the University of Virginia where I got a degree in marketing and finance. Then I spent a little over a year in NYC, which was great. I had a great apartment with Jeff Abt way up on the upper east side (95th & 3rd) and we had a ton of friends in to visit almost every weekend. Our apartment was on the 34th floor and we had a great view towards midtown. It was like a year-long party. I¿m really glad I did that ¿ great memories. I¿m also glad I left ¿ it would have gotten really old really fast before too long. Living in the city could definitely take a toll on you. Then I actually went back to Fairfield for about 6 months to take a job with a real estate syndicator in Southport. Of course, this was 1989 and the northeast real estate market was starting to collapse (as well as the southeast market, where they had most of their investments). They restructured and eliminated my position, but had properties in Southern California and offered to send me out here to work with one of their affiliated management companies. I figured I¿d have some fun in the California sun for a couple of years then go back to school or somehow end up back on the east coast, but once I got out here I was hooked ¿ there was no way I was going back to all that humidity in the summers and cold winters unless it was a phenomenal opportunity. I worked in commercial real estate for most of the 90s, then jumped on the dot-com bandwagon in 2000, just in time for it to crash. In 2001, I started a computer consulting business with a techie friend of mine and that went pretty well for about 5 years, but even though we were good partners, we just didn¿t have the same vision for the company¿s future, so he bought me out, and I went back to commercial real estate. A bit of a mistake ¿ I just wasn¿t into real estate anymore, so I just make a complete career change in July 2008 and now I¿m a recruiter (aka a headhunter). I recruit for logistics and supply chain positions nationwide. The company's name is Searchforce Advisors (searchforcecorp dot com). It¿s great ¿ I¿m on the phone and doing email all day long, which are things I like to do anyway, and I¿m working from home, which is great. I think this is going to be a great career for me ¿ we¿ll see. It should be very lucrative, too, but it takes a few little while to ramp up, so we'll see how it goes. I met my wife, Rosina, on New Year¿s Day, 1995. I proposed after dating for quite a while on New Year¿s Day 1999, and we were married in March of 2000. After a long ...Expand for more