Pete Spaulding:  

Have to admit, I really liked that upstate NY, Albany/Troy/Schenectady, a.k.a. the tri-shitty area, so right after RPI, I landed a job at NYSDOT in planning and development. After about 2 years, when Hugh Carey was elected Gov and started axing employees, I escaped the layoff by moving to Elmira NY and worked as a transportation planner. Elmira is a great, little town, but not much to do, but drink. As you all know, my Seton Hall and RPI years had me well prepared for that! In 79, moved back to Albany after landing a job in the now defunct NYS Energy Office, energy conservation in transportation. After eight years of mind numbing state work, I met Marcy, got a sudden jolt of enthusiasm, and made a move to the Big Apple. Went to work for Moran Stahl & Boyer, a mgmt consulting firm specializing in corporate relocations. Marcy and I were married in October 87, and soon realized the big apple wasn't our piece of fruit. So we decided to relocate ourselves, and high-tailed it up to Vermont, to the little town of Jericho, outside Burlington. I was working for St. Michael's College, bringing technology to rural road and transit workers, Marcy went to work for her uncle's newspaper in Barre. Well, having moved to Vermont to improve our quality of life, Marcy decided hers was better without me in it. So we split up in the spring of 89. I decided I needed to get back into the real world, and through a series of fateful meetings wound up with a job offer in Sacramento CA running a state transit association. Did that from 1991 through 2006. It was lot of fun, and we grew to be the largest state transit association in the country, not in budget but in members. But it was a lot like running your own business and I finally got tired of 12 hour days and working weekends ...Expand for more