After Leaving Unisys Jim Getzinger and I did some consulting but things were very slow. Ruth and I decided we wanted to get out of the crush of Orange County so we moved to the Point Loma area of San Diego. We found an apartment complex that bordered the 8 freeway just west of the San Diego freeway. This gave me access to the freeways.

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Consulting and Long Commutes

Now that I lived in San Diego and I was able to get consulting clients in Mission Viejo, Santa Ana and Long Beach. That's the way it goes. I did tech writing for two clients and did some marketing plans and a rewrite of the sales plan for another client.

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The big thing was the commute. I drove up to each client once a week and when I went to the Long Beach account I went on Thursday and stayed over and worked Friday there also. I was driving this when they were rebuilding the 5/405 interchange. It was a murderous commute each way. I lasted a couple of years and then I said no more.

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Escondido

My mother talked Ruth and I into going to look at some mobile homes. She and her husband Pete had lived in various mobile homes for several years and she was pushing us to get in to one. Well, with her help we did get into one in Escondido. It was very old and small but it was ours.

I took off a few months again and wrote the second book, And Then Came Daug, the  book in my trilogy, Saving Armont. It was fun to get back into the world of fiction and not have to worry about getting the facts down straight and complete.

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One of the things that Ruth and I did while we were at this park was to learn to play pool. We went over to the recreation center one day and saw the three pool tables and said, “what the hick, let's try it.” We went almost every day and played three or four games. It was very interesting to learn how the queue ball would act when hit in a certain way.  We tried and learned and soon we played a pretty good game.

But finally I had to get back to earning some money. I decided that I was not going to continue in the consulting world. I created a resume and went out looking for a job as a senior technical writer in the corporate world. I told Ruth that I was not going back into corporate management. I really hated it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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