Joel Segel:  

Life For me, Warren was a lifetime ago, since I've barely been back to visit since college. I'll try not to bore you with a lot of details, but it's been a long, interesting ride. I've really bounced around a lot. To be brutally frank, I really disliked high school and couldn't wait to get away from Warren and most of the people in our class. I spent 5 grueling years at the University of Rochester (NY), which was a total change from high school. It was like culture shock for a small town hick like me being exposed to preppy New York City kids with real attitudes. It was a great school, although I wish I had spent less time studying and more having fun. After getting a BA and MS in Political Science and Public Policy Analysis, I started my career in government, and that's when I started to bounce around. I worked in every level of government from 1984 to 1992 - federal (Washington, DC), state (Harrisburg), county (Dauphin - Harrisburg), and city (Pittsburgh). During those years, I was forced out of one job, took a temporary one-year appointment, was let go from another job, and worked for Manpower for six months going from one manual labor job to another. But hey, it was all fun. At 31 in October 1991, I ended my wild bachelor days and married Barb Liberman, the love of my life. Shortly afterward, I quit my city government job in Pittsburgh so my wife could pursue a genetic counseling career four hours away in Danville, PA. I tried to find a job out there in central PA, but if that didn't happen, my back-up plan was to go back to college and pursue something I always thought I wanted to do - teaching. For almost four years, I became a house husband - taking classes at Susquehanna University in Selingsgrove, PA to earn a social studies teaching certificate, and then student teaching and substitute teaching in a bunch of middle schools and high schools. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a full-time teaching job, and my wife and I wanted to move ba...Expand for more