In 1967 I was taking a course in Cultural Anthropology at USC, and wanted to contact fandom to do a paper for my class.   I was lucky enough to encounter Ray Bradbury, who told me about LASFS; I joined soon after, and have been a member ever since, though since I live in Riverside I don't make the meetings any more.   I graduated from USC in 1970 with a major in Psychology and a minor in Anthropology, and later went back to Citrus College to get Certificates in both Analog and Digital Electronics.   After spending a short time studying Photography at Art Center College of Design, I bumbed around a bunch of jobs, including being a lab tech in a chemical/biological lab, driver and delivery person, draftsperson involved in laying out sprinkler systems, consumer research field worker, freelance photographer (they say freelancing is either feast or famine - I damned near starved to death!), clerk in several stores, the last a camera shop, and first camera and then consumer electronics repair.   Several years ago I went back to school and just got my Teaching Credentials from the State of California in Social Studies and Electronics, and I am currently engaged in finding a permanent teaching position.   And I still read science fiction.