Life in 1972

 The Viet Nam War was killing the most people my age (born 1948) then with 50,000 people total who died there by 1974 when Nixon Resigned August 8th 1974.

I was going to college in San Diego County in 1972 still at age 24. I had worked in the computer field starting around age 19 for the Glendale Board of Education through my college part time and then worked full time in North Hollywood at two different locations and was making enough money to buy myself a brand new 1968 Camaro in 1968 when I turned 20 (as long as I lived at home I could afford the car payments and the insurance and the gas and the maintenance of the car. It was a dream to drive and once I had it up to 145 miles per hour.

So, in 1972 I had returned to college after I moved to San Diego County from Glendale and Venice. After I realized that I couldn't really do what I wanted to do with computers (until about now actually) 2026 I decided to do something else with my life and was studying to become a psychologist then in 1972. I may or may not have met my 1st wife in church yet though. Not sure. We didn't get together until 1973 and then I had to drop out of college when she got pregnant and we married then so I could support them both.

For me, personally, getting married was likely more important in my life than going to college was (even though in total now I have about 8 years of college under my belt and went to UCSC in 1990. So, being a father and a business owner I really enjoyed a lot then.

This is a lot of my life in this era from about 1968 to 1975. I also moved to Mt. Shasta and then to Hilo, Hawaii with my first wife and son in 1974 too and then I got injured in Hilo and returned to the mainland to become a partner in a family mining company in the Virginia dale Mining district then and refurbished a Mining Mill with an Architect friend of mine who had a degree from Cal Poly in San Luis Obsipo.

Very interesting time in my life regarding needing to get married and support 3 people instead of 1.

I much preferred being married with a family than being single even though I always had a girlfriend usually from age 15 until I married. I found changing partners pretty confusing more than anything else and I preferred the stability of being a Dad in a marriage to being single. Being a father and now Grandfather helps make my life more sense to me than anything else has along the way.

By God's Grace