Nanotechnology to Las Vegas Casinos

For a few years, I developed websites in Florida until a company involving nanotechnology offered to move me to Santa Barbara beaches. The resort town has one main avenue. Bored in Santa Barbara I took a job with the company headquarters in Manhattan. Now I am headed to New York City. Far from Colorado, I lost sight of Denver, Boulder, especially Aspen. Two months later, the World Trade Center was attacked. I began to write at night. My wife and I met when I started to teach. Computer jobs came and went as corporations left Manhattan to move west to New Jersey or north to Westchester. Many computer engineers were traumatized by the World Trade Center attack. Many of their friends died. The highest paying tech jobs for engineers were next to the World Trade Center. Well I left too after joining a writing class near Central Park West with World Trade Center survivors. I was offered a house and a job in Las Vegas, Nevada. Magazines around the planet proclaimed Las Vegas the fastest growing city in the United States. My phone rang off the receiver. I was asked to work for three separate employers in two days. My wife also found a job the week we arrived. We hadn’t even unpacked our boxes. The table we sat at for dinner came from a resurrected television box. After taking out the TV, we turned the cardboard upside down, and ate using the bottom, because we were so busy getting ready to check in for work that we didn’t have time to buy dining tables, bed sets, and kitchen cooking utensils. University students around the corner were dropping out of management classes. “Why study for a semester, when I can make more than $70,000 a year valet parking cars. That is more than my professor makes.” The freshmen exclaimed. High students went to card training classes to become blackjack dealers. Girls urned to be cocktail models that served Long Island Iced Teas while wearing slinky two piece bikinis thinner than the floss dentist recommended for toothaches.