After graduating from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a degree in Economics it seemed like a good idea to put my degree to use at agriculturally focused hedge fund in the San Joaquin Valley of California. Within a year, I determined that pursuing my future wife to Idaho was a more important objective and switched career paths to work in outdoor education with troubled youth, construction and a climbing gym before returning to investment management. The timing of the return to the investing world was such that I was able to experience the Great Recession from preamble to postscript, and I’m quite grateful for the lessons that were learned and the bonds that were for