Kim Berry - The Yuppie 1990's
Only 2 courses from graduating I took a full-time job at QMA [under construction] in June 1990, then completed my BS degree by taking two evening courses. QMA had on-site daycare so Stephanie (and later Stephen) came to work with me, and Stephanie then went to the daycare on site a CSUS. After they fired my good friend and co-worker Tim Mahan for a minor bug, I decided it was time to get out. From August 1992 through August 1997 (exactly 5 years to get my full 401k vesting), I worked for NEC Electronics in Roseville, California. Unfortunately this Dilbert strip from 1995 reflects some of my experiences at NEC:
I composed electronic music through the 1990's as Six Sigma. And in 1994 I joined some other musicians as "Chainsaw." In 1994 I took a nice vacation in Japan. Here I am with Stephanie and Stephen, my grandmother and her husband Howard, at the 1994 Foley Reunion party:
1997 was a big year. I got my private pilot's license. My brother phoned me at work in July and said we was in Germany and would be driving to Dresden next week if I wanted to join him. I booked a flight to Stuttgart for two days later, he picked me up at the airport and I recovered from jet lag at his apartment. From Dresden I took a train alone to Prague, where I hung out for four days. In August 1997 I got a better job at Hewlett-Packard. In 1998 we attended Jay's baby shower in Las Vegas. We didn't know that some of the stars from the strip were going to be there.
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