Jeff Bean:  

eering degree. I failed almost immediately. I was totally unprepared for it. I had no idea how to study. So, I dropped out after one year. I then got a job and started attending night school at De Anza College continuing toward an engineering degree. I went to De Anza, Foothill, and West Valley off and on for about 4 years. I quit altogether after our first child was born. Work and family became the priority. In 1996, with a wife and two children at home, I decided to go back to school. This time I decided to pursue something I was really interested in. Having been ordained the year before my interests had changed. I enrolled in San Jose Christian College (now William Jessup University) and got dual degrees in Bible and Theology & Christian Leadership. Workplace I dropped out of college after my freshman year because I really was unprepared. I immediately began working at Varian Associates where my father worked for many years (he gave them 37 years). In 1995, Varian sold our part of the business and we became Communications & Power Industries. During the past 27 years I have worked as an assembler, furnace operator, senior electro-mechanical technician, product analyst, government property manager, fleet manager, and risk & insurance manager. Today I am a program manager for several communications products for both commercial and military markets.