Paul Garrett:  

After Helix and San Diego State (Russian major), I worked in machine translation for a few years and then attended a Russian Orthodox seminary in New York. They decided that I'd make a better librarian than a priest. After being sent to library school by St. Vladimir's Seminary, I served as librarian for a decade. Most of the final years were split between library work and programming database applications for the seminary. When I moved to Antiochian Village in 1987, this dual assignment continued. After leaving the Village in 1996 I freelanced as a developer (database and websites), wrote, and tried selling computer system. I wrote and published a couple of biographies and lots of articles before hanging up my career in academia. In 2000 I moved to Connecticut to become au pair to my first grandchild; while waiting for his delivery, I signed up as a temp and was assigned to MasterCard. The offer of a full-time job (as a programmer) was too good to pass up, so diapers disappeared from my resume. Downsized in 2003, I "bummed around" in La Me...Expand for more