Jamie Barger:  

Life I'm in law school in Philadelphia, at Temple University Beasley School of Law, a fine public university and the school that puts more people into big Philly law firms than any other. I went to the University of Florida for as long as they would have me. I was able to drag it out to 1994, when I graduated with a degree in Journalism, with an "outside concentration" in graphic arts. After about a year as a reporter/photographer/editor, I went down the road to becoming a web site developer and programmer (and database designer, etc.). I'm still doing a bit of that to defray the cost of law school. My wife and I met on a Southwest flight from Baltimore to Jax, while she was attending Flagler College and I was teaching Microsoft-certified programming classes. We were married in 2002, on the lawn at Epping Forest Yacht Club (no, we're not members). We bought a renovated hundred-year-old house in the historic Springfield neighborhood in Jax, which we're trying to sell now, because we've moved to a beautiful neighborhood in Philadelphia. Here's the whole work history thing.... After UF, I was a reporter at a couple small newspapers for about a year. Next, I went to work at AOL, where I earned a few promotions and got to leave with a more-than-fair amount of AOL stock. My next job was at the Federal Reserve (Jacksonville Branch of the Atlanta Bank). It was an incredible workplace with nice people, but mind numbingly boring. After exactly one year, I left to go to work for a small technology consulting and training company. While there, I got to travel all over the country, to a different city almost every week, for part of my time there. I also served as a consultant and a manager. After three years there, things started looking bleak for the industry, so I jumped ship to an incredibly successful and stable national trucking company (headquartered in Jax). I left there in 2007 to a...Expand for more