Originally posted by magnetic9999:
hey JD. congrats on your new purchase.
btw, why the starbucks in the sig? :)
Hi Kollin,
To most, Starbucks is just a corporate identity, kind of the McDonald's of coffee. I spent 12 years drinking nasty coffee on submarines in the Navy, and expensive coffee was something I didn't know about, and probably would have thought to be stupid. When I got out of the Navy, I moved to Colorado Springs without ever visiting, no job, nothing... So many people asked me why I came here, for what appeared to be absolutely no reason.
It is all because my wife had bought a photo of James Dean drinking coffee in a coffee shop! (Sounds weird, I know). My wife was born and raised in Colorado Springs, but spent most of her adult life in LA, Beverly Hills, Chicago, and Denver (she has degrees in Industrial Design and Fine Art). She moved back to Colorado Springs in early '95 and got a job at Starbucks while looking for other jobs. She wound up buying an obscure portrait of James Dean drinking coffee...
My name is James Dean Anderson II and I wound up in Colorado Springs in August '95. My background was technical (Electronics Technician, and Reactor Operator/Engineering Watch Supervisor in the Nuclear Power field). I went to a Starbucks on a Friday night when I first arrived, thinking it was a local bar. I was surprised that it turned out to be a coffee shop... I had never seen a coffee shop before. Seemed kind of stupid to pay $3 to $5 for a coffee. I ended up getting an iced mocha and talked to the girls working there for awhile. They were very funny and I had a great time goofing around there for awhile. They gave me an application (knowing I had just moved there and didn't have a job). I filled it out as a joke (said Juan Valdez was my cousin... stuff like that). Well, they hired me and I thought it would be a great place to meet some people, being new to town.
I started work the following week and worked a shift with this girl named Tracy, who turned out to be very artistic, liked big cities, and just a little off kilter, which I liked. Most of the guys there were 'afraid' of her because she was very strong-willed, very opinionated, and she intimidated a lot of people. She had a boyfriend, but, but I got her to go out with me (as friends) anyway. We bought a house eight months later, got married eight months after that, and now we have three awesome little boys! Tracy still works at Starbucks (she is a manager now). I found a job as a Project Manager for a consulting group that services the semiconductor industry.
If I hadn't stopped in at Starbucks (mistaking it for a bar), my life would be very different now. I have an awesome family, an awesome wife, and it's all because I accidentally stopped at a place called Starbucks. Tracy thinks it was bacause of the James Dean photo, and a higher power intervening for us... I believe in the higher power, but I'm not too sure about the picture!
How's that for a really long story for a very simple question????
JD
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