Ray Race:  

it during my first two years at Keppel. Going into my junior year, I had a GPA of about 1.2 and was not looking forward to school. During that year I was very fortunate to meet Mr. Forman who took it upon himself to change my life around. He convinced me that I was not a dummy and that I actually could do quite well if I tried. One of my biggest regrets is that I never went back and thanked him. I finished my junior year with a 3.0 (for that year) and my senior year with a 3.8. Thank you Mr. Forman. As mentioned in my other bio, I have two bachelors and a masters degree. I have never stopped going to school as my profession, information systems, requires continual learning. When I worked for Computer Sciences Corporation they offered to pay for my PhD but at that time I pretty burned out. In retrospect I should have done it. Would have had to move to D.C. though. Now I'm trying to impress the school thing on my sons. School was never really important to my parents and they never harped on grades. I need to learn the tricks my Asian friends use on their kids. It is much harder now than it was for us. Workplace Work is just work. I've done the software development thing, the big corporation thing, the small business thing, and the startup thing. I'm now doing the government thing building up a pension so that I can do the retirement thing. I've eliminated most of the job related stress from my life after realizing I don't handle it too well. As a senior software developer I'm able to work on what I want to and set my own schedule. I enjoy the technical aspect of my job and realized that I really missed it when I was in management. I just need to learn new things so I won't get bored.