As I mentioned back in November, back in July I’d submitted for an itemized list of every place I’ve worked over the years from the Social Security Administration – and that paperwork came in today!
It’s fascinating to look back over the years and suddenly remember things that are mere dim memories, because the name, location, and date is readily available.
For example, here’s the “Mr. Steak” (#106) I worked at in Longmont right before the family relocated to Golden in 1985… All I remember about that place was the quirky 60’s era cartoon cow logo.
Like most 80’s teenagers, I worked a string of restaurant jobs starting out; Café Marnie (Longmont), Mr. Steak (Longmont), Señor Frogs (Wheat Ridge), and finally the “Royal Fork” or “King’s Table” depending on what year it was (Lakewood).
In ’86 I went into the Navy for four years, getting out at the end of 1990.
The 90’s were a pretty weird time for me; the economy sucked, my ex was issueful, and it seemed like 1991 lasted about a decade…
Once I got out of the Navy I promptly started work at Prairie Tek working on bleeding edge 2.5″ laptop hard drives – which lasted until Prairie Tek moved everything overseas in February of ’91.
I was self-employed for a while in the middle of 1991 where I worked the convention circuit for about six months and then worked in a call center third shift for a month before landing a job at EDCON doing gravity and magnetic oil surveys in December of 1991.
EDCON lasted through late ’92 before things went weird with my ex again and everything fell apart. I subsisted on temporary jobs until I landed another job doing building maintenance and management at Town View Plaza in early ’93 and did that until late ’94 when I started at Intelligent Electronics – 3rd shift assembly on IBM EduQuest machines.
I left I.E. to work at a local computer store called “Action Computers” in mid ’95, then went back to I.E. to take over the network operations from early ’96 to mid ’97.
In 1997 I moved to Virginia and landed a job at Amerind in Alexandria, and in early ’98 struck out on my own to start “PFM Technologies” with some friends, and built some amazing things for anyone who paid me. One of these was the “Sticker Station” for APBI / foto fantasy.
From 2000 to 2001 I lived on a yacht in Baltimore and made all sorts of amazing things with Scott and Ken.
2001 to mid 2002 was teaching CompSci at Marianapolis Prep in Connecticut. And from there I worked a temp job for about a month, and then ran the computer repair side of a store in Vail until August 16th, 2004 – when I started at the company I currently work for.
All in all it’s a really interesting look at my past, and now I need to go and adjust things in my memoirs that felt like they were years apart, but were really only weeks… Especially 1991 – 1991 is very problematic because a decade of things happened in the span of about nine months.
It’s a tapestry of failures and successes, ups and downs, but it’s mine. 🙂
Listening to "The One" by Jessie Frye