Rick May:  

Life Those of you that remember me probably remember me more from PBJH than from Mission Bay so I'll start from the begining. After being thrown out of PBJH toward the end of my 9th grade year (1981) for being a general f*&%-up, I finished out 9th grade at marston middle school in clairemont. I then went to mission bay for the start of 10th grade. Unfortunately, I only lasted a couple of months before my enrollment was once again terminated. I went to Twain beach continuation for a couple of weeks before finally just dropping out altogether. At the time I thought that my schoolastic career was over but my parents managed to convice me to take the california proficiency exam when I was 16. After a short career in construction I decided that work, especially hard work, sucked. Yes, I know it does not take a genius to figure that out but I was never very bright when I was young, some would say I'm still not. So, anyways, I started going to Mesa college at night and after a couple of semesters decided to go back full-time. After a couple years I transfered to UCSD where I earned my Bachelor's degree in Engineering. I even graduated with honors, which amazed even me. After working as a tech geek, who woulda thought, for 5 or 6 years I decided it was time to do something different so I started going to grad school at night. After about 3 years of doing little besides working and going to school I earned my MBA. I'm glad I did it but I would never do it again! In 2002 the Kearny Mesa based high tech company that I had worked at for 7 years was suddenly closed down by its corporate parent. Just as suddenly I found myself unemployed. This seemed like a good time to strike out on my own so I set up a consulting business and signed up several of the former customers of my former company. In early 2004 I finished up all of the work that I had lined up and quit taking on new business. I proposed...Expand for more