On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 08:58 PM, Bernadette Lynn wrote:
And Kirby is still a computer geek.?
True, and he's working doing computer tech at Honeywell, where his dad worked for many years as a software engineer.? For a long time, though, Kirby was kind of a professional gamer, when he worked as a gamemaster for Blizzard Entertainment (mostly on World of Warcraft, though we weren't supposed to talk about that in public, at the time), and he was, before long, a trainer and supervisor of other gamemasters.?
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Brett is a fireman in Los Alamos, New Mexico.? They pay very well, and he has many days off.? They pay him to work out, in off hours, and the fire station there has the best kinds of workout equipment, I hear.
Marty worked for Apple for a while, indirectly through a contractor.? He honed and updated the map information Siri uses to give directions.? He wasn't doing the programming, but was checking maps, reporting when there would be construction, when new traffic signals would be in operation and lots of fun trivia.? He figured out who to call, in what offices, about which roads.? At first it was just New Mexico (a large state) , but after a while he was doing a couple or three other western states.? That was a limited contract, and now he works for the Albuquerque Police Department doing data analysis on property crimes and traffic, mostly.? It also involves maps, and computer geekery, and discovering patterns that he can share with others there.? He's invited to the morning briefings, and sometimes he's one of those with news or advice to share.??
The world being as it is, I expect that they will all change jobs and maybe fields again, or twice, over the next twenty or thirty years.
Sandra