Michael Bolla:  

Since I graduated from McDowell and Erie County Vo-Tech, other than 3 months that I was laid off, I've been working steady. I started at Erie Press Systems in the engineering department while still in school. They hired me on full time once I graduated. I married my girl friend in May of 1985. A couple years later in 1987, I got laid off due to a lack of orders and started working for Lake Erie Electric in their engineering and service departments. In late 1988 my marriage headed south and I got divorced in May of 1989 (she got the house). In October of 1989, I started working at National Fuel Gas in the engineering department. In early 1990, my ex-wife remarried and I bought the house back. Since I started with NFG, I've been involved in testing and administering a computerized mapping system for all of the pipelines in NW Pennsylvania and western New York. We're in the process of replacing the existing mapping system with a new one. I really enjoy working with these mapping systems. Enough about work. Back in the summer of 1997, I got a female Chocolate Lab named Nikki. Nikki and I have been taking on ...Expand for more