Richard Ruvalcaba:  

Life Those who know me well, know me. I'm usually one of those you may glimpse at in a crowd when your are searching for someone else. That suits me fine. Being the center of attention is not me. However, I'm not, nor have ever been, a follower. I would'nt necessarily jump when they are asking for leaders, but have no aversions to leading. I prefer to forge my own way, even though that has gotten me into trouble on occasion, but that was then. I'm smarter and seasoned now and do a better job of bobing and weaving ("it never happened unless you've got it on film", joking). Since graduating from "The Ranch", my life's journey has been filled with a variety of stops. Some interesting and others not as. I, like many of us, went on to college, but avoided the "High School on the Hill" (Rio Hondo), cuz I knew it would be more of a party place than a place to get schooling. After graduating from college, my tram stopped briefly at GTE to revisit co-workers I had met during summer employment while in college. I was one of first two guys to ever work in a directory assistance office which staffed over 200 females (talk about the proverbial Fox in the Hen House, and sometimes it felt like we were the hens). It was without question a fun place to work, and met some nice people. After leaving GTE in Jan of '75 work got serious. I hired on with United Callifornia Bank for two years in a management position and discovered that working indoors was not for me. I then went on to work for Los Angeles County in a ...Expand for more