Richard Huset:  

Life: Lots of school time after Edison - Hamline Univ, Stanford Medical, U of M for business and for public health. Then medical practice, public health work, I founded two data companies, crashed two companies, then reentered medicine. My wife and I have farm a bit north of the Twin Cities. Unreconstructed Hippies, I suppose. Tried real estate investment and flipping, but no more! Now I travel, hunting rocks for my lapidary work. This included Australia on the Great Barrier Reef for part of several years. I did a little occupational medicine when I returned home to the US, and fully retired in May of 2017. When in other countries I collect rough gemstones and later get them cut. I made jewelry until my shop accidentally burned down along with my house. New house now. I'd love to hear YOUR stories if you are into travel or crafts, etc. Another of these 'Story Wizard' things prompts me ... What about me would surprise everyone from high school? Well - during Edison times I was your basic intellectual mild-mannered nerd sort who shied from much social contact with classmates. Plans then included a math career or research. During college I took a job for summers out of financial urgency at a summer camp for disadvantaged kids. There I discovered that I truly liked kids, staff, and acting out in Oh So Many Ways! MC for gatherings, leadership, and really became a people person. Math was dropped. I guess I felt the Sexual Revolution was understaffed, so I volunteered for duty. Went to California for med school with flowers in my hair. But never inhaled, I think they say. My military time could have been used for Mash episodes. Later when family medicine became boring I worked with the arctic tribes, the...Expand for more