Okay, I partook - it's only fair

[kyburg]

Vis bigbigtruck:

This is the problem with Livejournal: we all think we are so close, and we know nothing about each other. I'm going to rectify it. I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me; something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. then post this in your Livejournal and find out what people don't know about you.

So what would you like to know?

Comments

[zyrc.livejournal.com]

well, ok, i have two questions:

are you an LA native or a transplant from elsewhere?

what exactly do you do for a living?

:)

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

I am a native Californian, born and raised in the teeny hamlet of Hemet where I graduated from Hemet High School in 1978, and went to school at Mt. San Jacinto Jr. College until 1980 when I migrated to San Bernardino and finished my AA at San Bernardino Valley College.

I then went to the California Polytechnic University at Pomona and took a Bachelor of Science in Communication Arts, Broadcast Option and matriculated in June of 1984. I had intended to write for television, but I quickly discovered that a college degree doesn't prepare you to look for a job in that field - and I found myself back in the secretarial business that had kept me fed going to school.

The degree has opened doors to me that would have remained closed, but after holding down two separate jobs "in the business" I've decided that if something comes up, I'm ready - but I make better, more consistent money working with computers as an EDI Administrator.

THAT job description defies me - the hardest thing I have to do is explain what I do for a living, I swear it. To keep it short, I'm the human glue that keeps programmers and end users at both ends of the vendor/supplier pipeline together. I take specifications and interpret them, troubleshoot and negotiate changes. I spend more time with our customer's version of me than I do with my own coworkers -

Think data geek goddess. I'll be happy with that!