Richard Grossman:  

Life 20 years ... where'd they go? Graduated, went to the U of A on the 5 year plan, got my degrees in Math and Chemistry. I was still in the Army Reserve at the time but decided to go to Navy OCS then Nuclear Power School and Nuclear Prototype Training ... and then the Navy shrank and I took the opportunity to go civilian except for a couple of years in the Colorado National Guard as an artillery officer. Worked for Sievers Instruments, StorageTek then came back to Tucson in 97 (2 months after the reunion) to work for IBM. Blah, blah, blah, programming, computers, dull, dull, dull! Did an overseas assignment in London in 2001 working on a large datacenter migration for Merrill Lynch. Over time I just got fed up with the corporate environment and "retired" in 05. I will never work for another huge corporation, never carry a pager, never sit through another meeting about "leveraging our synergies" or "staff right-sizing" or "excellence through quality" again!!! Now I do bookkeeping and taxes ... and yes I know that sounds even more dull than IBM. However, the work/life balance is MUCH better .. I have a life now! Finally got married in 2004. Denise is a physician assistant here in Tucson. It turns out we lived within 50 miles of each other 3 different times. York, Pennsylvania, in the early 70...Expand for more