When Robert Lopez graduated from Yale College in 1997 with a degree in English, he moved back in with his parents in Greenwich Village and stayed for four years. To finance his musical-theater writing, he worked as a temp at drug maker Pfizer Inc., among other gigs, during what he amiably calls "one big, dumb, idiotic crapshoot."
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 11:10AM on June 9, 2011