Gregory Balzer:  

Life Graduated NHHS in 1976. Proceeded to try to find myself - or at least a major. Attended UCLA for two years (Pre-Dental till I hit Chemistry), Cal State Northridge for 2 years (Business until I fell asleep in Accounting and then English because I liked it) and finally Cal Poly Pomona for 3 more years graduating with a Bachelors of Science in Landscape Architecture. Well - at least Landscape Architecture is more practical than English - right? 1982 was a BAD time to graduate from college. Everybody I talked to suggested I go back to school - but I felt that spending seven years to get a BS was enough for that time in my life. Finally, after getting "dismissed" from two firms in San Diego and Orange County, I found reliable employment with several Orange County Landscape Architecture firms including Peridian Group, POD and EDAW Inc. SOMEWHERE in that 20 year period of 60 hour weeks - actually a...Expand for more