Gary Beamer:  

Life Well, I did the reverse migration and ended up in California. I moved from Oregon in 1982 to Montana, froze my rear end off and moved down to California a few years later to thaw out my bones. I live in Rocklin....and trust me, there is a reason the town name has "rock" in it. Rocklin is a suburb north of Sacramento, a bedroom community that everyone lives in and drives into Sacramento for work. I have been in accounting since I went to Montana, working for CPA firms for eight years and then into corporate accounting, enjoying the pressures as a controller for several different companies. Now I work as a consultant, solving other peoples accounting mess, fix it and move on. I think I may go back to a perm position, this way when I have it cleaned up, I can keep it that way. UPDATE: have been on a consulting assignment since May 2009 down in Ontario, CA, it was suppose to last ten days to two weeks............go figure, May 7th will be two years. Me and Southwest Airlines are good friends. If in the Ontario/Rancho Cucamonga area, look me up. We have lived in Rocklin for 18 years and enjoyed raising our children and watching them grow, mature, graduate from high school and watch the town grow, and grow it has. I have been married to the same beautiful woman for 30 years and even though life has it ups and downs, I am a very lucky person to have shared my life with my wife Sheryl. I met Sheryl at Mt. Bachelor when I worked at the ski shop at the mountain, that was 34 years ago...she is my best friend, besides my wife. UPDATE: Well we are into becoming Rancher/Farmers.....can you believe that?? We closed on a bare land sale. We want to have all the classic things a "Green Acres" place would have. Tractor, chickens, cows (Texas Longhorns), horses, barn, etc. We want to plant some vines and grow some Zin, what a lot of work...........I must be nuts!!! Not a big spread, but 55.4 acres will be enough for me for awhile. So now I search Craigslist for tractors and implements.........boy am I having fun now! We have three children. My oldest son Brandon graduated from UC Berkeley, Cornell Medical College in NYC. He wants to become an Orthopedic Surgeon and is doing his residency at Harvard. Enjoys living in Boston, much better than NYC, but misses California and cannot wait to come home twice a year. My second son Bryce, completed his studies at UC Berkeley in December 2007, graduated May 2008, accepted his first job out of college in San Francisco in the Financial District, working as a Financial Analyst for a large company, but you know how that goes these days, his job was eliminated. Best thing for him, now he is a Sales Rep for Medtronic in the Spine Division in SF, to be 25, single and in SF. He moved from Berkeley into San Francisco and has an apartment on Lombard Street in the marina district. He gives me a hard time about my commute versus his...Expand for more