Name: Dean

Born: England
Reside: Los Angeles

Wife: Qty 1
Child: Qty 1

My:
…last wife was a diagnosed manic depressive (bipolar), drug addicted, convicted thief
…parents were never married, but lived together for 20 years
…2 closest relatives have died in the last 4 years
…degree is in Engineering, I work in Marketing/Sales
…1st job was packing cheese on an assembly line
…professional career includes both start-up & Fortune 500 companies
…unemployment experience is higher than yours
…average for car accidents is 1 per year
…problem is mild Adult ADD and being extremely anally retentive

Dean Dean Bo Bean Banana Fanana Fo Fean Me My Mo Mean DEAN!

Are you sure it was cheese you were packing? You know, just asking.

Believe me, you don't wanna know how cheese is handled. You'd never eat it again...

The most fun we used to have was taking the wax off of the Edam (you know, the hard red stuff on the outside) and molding it like clay. I was literally the only boy/man on the entire assembly line, and it was fun to be surrounded by all those women but I all I got to listen to ALL DAY LONG was them bitching about their boyfriends and husbands!

I still do that.

It's the only reason I buy those nets of the small 'Baby Babel' .......... or whatever tha' fuck they're called.

Knowing what cheese is made from makes me not wanna eat it, but the awsesome flavor keeps me comin back for more.

I'm with you. I worked in a cheese packing plant and I still eat it by the pound!

And I guess you acted upon this. They wanted you man, they wanted you. Back to the cheese, got to love those curds.

Dean -

Did you know that you could study food science, with a focus on cheese, at the University of Wisconsin? I visited Madison once, and got a tour of the cheese facilities.

How did you make the transition from Engineering to Sales?

I have several friends in startups - they all seem to be losing hair and getting gray, but they all still love what they do. They all work 60+ hours a week - they also talk about work when they're out socially. We need to do something about this

Your ex-wife sounds like a handful. If I complain about ex-gf's again, please whack me aside the head. I did date a manic-depressive for 3 months, and the last month was absolute hell. I can't imagine what it would be like to be married to her.

I've been to a couple of places in Wisconsin for work. I went there with an Engineer that was a real character, and he drove the rental car. I found out later that I had dozed off in the car and he admitted that he got tired looking at me sleep and actually fell asleep at the wheel! Asshole.

Anyway, back you your questions.

I was an Electrical Engineer in England and joined a company that was a reseller for a couple of Networking companies in the USA - I was partly hired to fix broken Networking cards, etc so they didn't have to be sent all the way back to the US. They sent me to one company in California for 6 weeks of technical training on the products, and the people I worked with offered me a job if I "ever happened to wind up in the US."

At the same time I met what was to be my 1st wife. Silly me.

So, long story not quite so long, I ended up with the company in California. I started in Technical Support, answering phones (worst job ever), testing in the lab, etc. I became friends with the Marketing guys, and was more interested in the creative side of things, so I transitioned into a technical marketing role (I was the smart ass fucker in Marketing that told the retards how the product really worked in layman's terms). I eventually ended up doing Product Marketing and that's basically where I've been for the last 14 years.

The startup world can be brutal. My problem was that my first startup actually went public (had an IPO and everything), so I made some money – not as much as I could have if I had known more about the process, and then I tried to repeat that 6 more times without success. Ha.

Unfortunately, I never REALLY knew my ex-wife before I married her – I do not recommend this to anyone. Remember, I met her while visiting, and one of the only ways for me to stay was marriage. So, I ended up being one of those people who married to get a green card, but not intentionally. At 22 (when I married her) I honestly thought she was the one for me and that we were just speeding up the process a bit so we could be together forever. If I had known her better I might be back in England now. And believe me I worked for my green card. If you don’t know anything about it, you only get a temporary green card when you marry a citizen – you have to stay married for 2 years, prove you’ve been together that whole time (bank statements, etc) and only then do you get your real green card. Fun…

And that was the short version… sorry!

So at this point have you become a US citizen?

NEVER! "You may take my life, but you'll never take MY FREEDOM!"

But seriously, no. Not for any other reason than I've been too lazy to fill out the forms and be forced to learn what the hell the constitution really means (and take a test). There's nothing stopping me outside of my own procrastination, and that there's no real benefit - except I get to vote, which is funny in itself!

England (the UK) doesn't allow me to give up my British citizenship anyway, so I'd have dual citizenships. I suppose that would be handy if I ever needed to travel to Kyrgyzstan. Not.

Dude, you are in Cali. Just tell em your Mexican.

One of my son's physical therapist is from Belgium. She has been here long enough but hasn't done it for some of the same reasons.