Chattanooga working for the now-defunct Arthur Andersen. Newly-ish-weds a year out from starting family.

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Originally posted by Georgeair:
Chattanooga working for the now-defunct Arthur Andersen. Newly-ish-weds a year out from starting family.

You're a bean counter??

That would have been a couple months past my 21st birthday. So I can give a reliable guess as to where I was, but nothing exact.

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Originally posted by Georgeair:

Chattanooga working for the now-defunct Arthur Andersen.

I did not know that Andersen is now DOA. Glad to hear it! The bastages did me out of a job when they got the prime contracting gig at BellSouth, where I had been a software development contractor, Andersen brought in a whole bunch of H1B temps to displace American workers, because the H1B people were much more profitable to Andersen, even though they knew zero zip ship about telephone systems.

June 30th 1989 I was in the Peachtree 25th building when the main electrical bus on the 6th floor exploded.

Most likely was in the Netherlands for a 2-week meeting as an International Product Manager for Bell Labs! I was working on a domestic project that was soon to go international. This was prior to AT&T purchasing a Dutch company.....Good times!!

1990 - 15 years into a career as Environmental Specialist for a major Engineering firm, a career that lasted 36 years. I thoroughly enjoyed the daily challenges. Probably working on bridge expansions and highway widening projects in and around the Lake of the Ozarks. Got to travel a lot, worked on projects throughout the Midwest and South.

Checking in to my new duty station, Ft. Ord, CA, 3/17 Inf. They were just getting back from Operation Just Cause, they had lost a few men. I kept quiet for a while

Welcome to the Jungle

Light Fighters!

I was a agricultural/commercial banker for Norwest. Lived in Lewistown Montana raising 2 kids. Life was good - and still is.

Waiting to start kindergarten. I don't really remember any more than that.

I was raising 2 girls 14 and 11 alone post divorce. Plus helping Mother with my very sick Dad. And slaving away in local govt. Dad held on 3 more years with pulmonary fibrosis.

overseas.

Villa Nueva, Navarette. Domincan Republic.

In May 1990 I was a civilian living in Virginia Beach, working for the US Coast Guard, and had just graduated from Old Dominion University with a BA in Economics after 10 years of night school.

I was cranking up a new K-9 unit in a Northeast GA county. Well trained bloodhounds, drug dog from Penn. State Police And a 1.5 year old GS training in aggression and access to a cadaver GS K9. Interesting and fun year.

In 1990 I was an engineer for a consulting firm in Rochester, NY, and planning for my marriage in November of that year. I am still married to the same wonderful lady I married then. I'll have you know she's a very patient woman.

I am still in the Rochester area. The nut doesn't fall far from the tree.

Wednesday, July 25, 1990 I was at Ft. McClellan, Alabama sweating my nads off at Chemical Officer Basic Course. MOPP IV in 98 degree heat with 90% humidity is no joke

It was just a few days away from Saddam invading Kuwait on August 2. I got to participate in some interesting briefings and see the school's response to the invasion and the belief that chemical weapons would almost surely be used.

I was working as a boat captain taking people water skiing and tubing off Ft. Lauderdale beach and getting ready to go to the police academy in Lake City, Fl.

I was in the Air Force stationed in Okinawa

I was a new parent, self employed and 32 years old. Coming from a generation taught to "not trust anyone over 30" I was now part of the problem.