Pills, Skills, and Will

Stephen Luce Jr. lives and works in Silicon Valley, California. He has been most fortunate to have been treated for mental illness by psychopharmacologist Dr. Reed Kaplan, and psychologist Dr. J. Mark Pratt for most of the past 25 years. Also, he benefitted greatly from La Selva, a residential mental health treatment program at which he lived for more than six months. He is thankful to his mom, for working so hard to pay for this top-notch treatment until his full-time employment was able to take this load off her strong shoulders in about the year 2012! Stephen has a law degree from Pepperdine University, but realized he was never going to be able to become a lawyer so thereafter went to De Anza Community College for A.A. paralegal degree. Unusual career path, yes, but it enabled Stephen to first get his foot in the door in the legal industry as a paralegal, and ultimately as a "knowledge manager" at a legal recruiting/headhunting firm where he has worked fulltime since 2006. Stephen very much enjoys having employment in the legal sector, and is most grateful for how his career has evolved to date. While he tries to plan and stay ahead and be strategic, he also sometimes feels like Paul Newman's character in Cool Hand Luke "I never planned anything in my life!"