To: stockalot who wrote (29193 ) 3/12/2007 10:06:06 PM From: Honey_Bee Respond to of 42834 Daddy brinker may have made a better offer than an old mutual fund company. LOL! At least over the past ten years, Bob Jr. has become more conservative at choosing investments--as his "fixed income" newsletter would indicate...Message 1825628 To: Gary M. Reed who wrote (994) 7/24/1997 1:01:00 AM From: Bob Brinker, Jr. of 29193 Quite frankly, it never occured to me to go into the financial sector. I was extremely fortunate as a kid to be able to play around with computer and I was hooked as a young teenager. I remeber purchasing basic programming books & typing the programs into our brand new TI99/4a computer. I would save the programs by recording them onto a cassette recorder. Those where the days...we've come a long way. A few hours of typing in program lines, days of debugging typo-s (no debuggers back than, it either worked or it didn't!), and I might see a few characters jump across the black & white tv i had plugged in. It was a strange time. Anyway, in college I was immediately hooked on Mgmt. Info. Systems and have never looked back. Now, with a Master's degree in the field and a few years of development/proj. mgmt experience I am doing just fine. I am perfectly happy (as many of us in the thread are) with getting my financial rewards through my own personal investing. But who knows what the future holds???? (of course I am always accepting offers if some company really wants to pay me mega-bucks as a mutual fund mgr. That seems like a great job! I would, of course, build a fund around high tech internet companies that are on the b-leading edge). Sorry to here you went to Nebraska, where the coach of the football team is more powerful than the sheriff. Last year was close, you were saved by the sloppy weather (our aerial tack was not hindered by your defense of course, it was the cold, rainy weather!). This year it is back in Boulder and I hope to make it to that game! .