Jim Hinman:  

Let's see. From Linn Mar to Coe and then from Coe I took a position teaching music in the middle school in Ogden, Iowa. It was a great year. I learned a lot and really loved the teaching experience. My wife was a Jersey girl and missed home, so the next year we packed our bags and moved to New Jersey and have been here ever since. Unable to find a teaching job I ended up becoming a programmer at AT&T. At the time it seemed like a strange change, but I grew to love the technical work and over the years have enjoyed being an architect (super-geek), manager, consultant, and even doing marketing work for a technology company. At one point I did a lecture tour of Latin America, speaking on Revenue Assurance in the telecommunications industry and how to apply data warehousing tools and techniques to that problem. I have had interviews published in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. (I hope they translated accurately!) Presenting to large groups through translators is an interesting experience. I learned not to tell any jokes that I hadn't pre-approved with the translators. (Or they may just tell a different, probably irrelevant joke.) It was fun, but over time the position evolved into 100% travel which led me to move to something that kept me home. In any case, now I'm an older, wiser geek. I married my college sweetheart a week after graduation. We have two daughters. One is a Music Therapist in New York City and the other is an Occupational Therapist in Brooklyn. My wife was a nurse, so her influence was a strong motivating factor. Unfortunately she lost her battle with pancreatic cancer in April. This June would have been our 32nd anniversary. Volunteering has been a part of our household. I was actually a Girl Scou...Expand for more