Top 10 kids...10 years later

JHS
Fri, 26 May 2017 15:48:22 +0000

My high school class, 40+ years on. My school didn’t rank. 1-4 were pretty obvious, below that it’s a little bit of a guessing game.

Lawyer with a private firm in an East Coast city.

Engineer -- last I knew, a senior engineer at a household-name engineering-centric company that has since gone through bankruptcy, so he's probably not there anymore.

Owned and ran local computer dealers in Texas and France for 20 years. Now reputedly works as a translation contractor for the FBI.

Professor at MIT.

History teacher and 9th grade lead at a day/boarding high school for girls in a mid-size city. Was: an environmental lawyer in private practice and then with an international nonprofit, a US Senate staff person, a world traveler.

Clinical Psychology Professor at Stanford School of Education.

Principal with a regional investment manager in the Midwest

PhD, head of the Education Group at a large academically-oriented consulting firm in California.

Ophthalmologist now primarily a business consultant on related tech issues. Reputedly in a bigamy situation a decade ago.

Founder/principal of a direct-mail firm in upstate NY.

Kid #1’s class, 12 years out

Principal with private wealth management firm in NYC

MD

Biology PhD working at a very prestigious consulting firm, having dropped out of MD leg of MD/PhD

Exec with fintech firm focusing on 3rd world, having sold his entrepreneurial start-up

English PhD, looking for a job

Late stages of obtaining Political Science PhD

No idea

Biology PhD doing a post-doc at a famous hospital

MD

Anthropology PhD looking for a job in private sector

Kid #2’s class, 10 years out

Engineer with East Coast tech firm

Working on an organic farm in New England

MD, in surgical residency

Executive with small regional distributor of organic, locally grown food and food products

Engineer at large manufacturing company in the Midwest

Social science researcher at a nonprofit consulting firm affiliated with a major university

Corporate attorney with biglaw firm on West Coast

Completing Harvard MBA, previously was with nonprofit doing economic development in India and design firm in NY

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Code writer at tech firm in Israel.