Scott Decker:  

I went to UConn, graduating in 1981 with an engineering degree (big surprise there). My family moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1980, and I moved to downtown Boston in 1981. Worked for several good firms in Boston and environs until a downturn in the early '90s kept me out of 'real' work longer than I wanted. IBM, of all companies, offered me a very good position in Burlington VT, so I moved there for what I thought would be 2 or 3 years in 1993. So here it is 2016 and I'm still in Burlington VT. I got married in 2007, and we're both open to moving nearly anywhere in the world, should a good opportunity present itself. My wife was a recent VT transplant from Seattle, and is a psychologist / therapist, ten years my junior. Despite (or because of) her professional skills with children, we barely decided not to have our own kids, a decision one can never be certain is for the best. In the meantime I seem to have made up for the jock I never was at NHS. Competitive running, road bicycle racing, mountain bike racing, semi-pro regional motorcycle roadracing, racquetball leagues, backpacking, downhill skiing around the country. And a lot more chill activities too. Within the context of working full-time for fairly conventional companies, I've extracted as much travel time as I could (unpaid time off is key!), both around the world, and throughout the US and Canada. We took two honeymoons, first a 10-day motorcycle trip up the St Lawrence River in Quebec, then a month all over Thailand. Motorcy...Expand for more