Jay Barksdale:
CLASS OF 1979
Georgetown High SchoolClass of 1979
Georgetown, TX
Rice UniversityClass of 1983
Houston, TX
Jay's Story
Life Update 6/2008
I now have a child that is a high school graduate and will be off to college in August. Pam is not looking forward to being the only female in the house after Meagan departs.
As I look back on it, 18 years can fly by before you know it if you are not careful. I am happy that we made the time to travel with our children before they leave the house.
Everything else is going as well as can be expected with a house full of teenagers.
Life
Pam and I celebrated our 20th anniversary this year. We have a daughter and two sons along with two yellow labradors. While life has its challenges, life is good at the Barksdale house. We seem to spend most of our time in Houston crisscrossing the city watching kid's sporting events. Everyone in our family likes to travel, so we seem to pack up and go everytime our schedules will allow.
My parents moved to Austin a number of years ago, so I do not make it back to Georgetown very often. Parent and grandparent commitments can fill up a weekend in a hurry.
I hope that everyone from the Class of 1979 is doing well and I hope that we can all get together for another reunion before too long.
Workplace
For the past twenty-five, or so, years I have been involved in one aspect or another of the energy industry and ranching. I started my own company in 1984, so I do not have many stories to share about good or bad bosses. I can say that there are a...Expand for more
just as many, if not more, drawbacks to being the boss, than not having to fill those shoes.
In 25 years I have been blessed with being in the right place at the right time, and I have been cursed by being in the wrong place at the wrong time. It seems that the curses are harder to forget than the blessings are to remember.
I recently sold my primary business so that I could spend more time with my kids before they leave the house to head off to college, or whatever else they choose to pursue in life. Everyone can probably relate when I say that my high schooler and middle schooler were not impressed when I told them that I would now being joining them in their respective classrooms to make sure that they were getting all that they could out of their education.
Pam is an attorney, but before those of you who have no fondness for the legal community draw a negative impression, I need to clarify that she is a tax attorney who fights the common enemy, i.e. the IRS.
Only my youngest child has any clue what they might want to do with their life. I haven't been able to determine if that is a trait for kids who grow up in a large metropolitan area, or their entire generation. It seems that many of my friends with similar aged kids are seeing the same pattern.
While there are many days when work is no fun at all, I do hope that everyone else in the Class of 1979 has found a career that they enjoy.
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