Meet Paul

Hi, I'm Paul Bischoff. I'm a husband to Jenny for 31 years, father of 3, and I build homes for a living. In my spare time, I love watching Texas Rangers baseball, playing tennis at Soto Park, and playing bass guitar and drums (not at the same time!) at Grace Central Coast Five Cities campus.

I was born in Bakersfield, CA to an auto glass shop owner father and a phlebotomist and homemaker mother. I played youth soccer and baseball growing up, and graduated #11 (not top 10, thanks for nothing, Erilynne) in the West High (Bakersfield) Vikings class of 1987. I was also the league MVP in baseball that year, though an elbow injury and UCL reconstruction (Tommy John surgery) derailed my baseball dreams.

I attended Bakersfield College and then UC Berkeley, and received a BS in Civil Engineering in 1992.

My wife Jenny got in at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo right after we were married, so after our wedding in April 1993, we moved to Arroyo Grande (apartments at South Elm Street & Farroll Avenue) in July 1993. Moving from Bakersfield to Arroyo Grande in July was glorious in a way that the English language cannot convey.

My first real engineering job out of college was working for the state Department of Water Resources on a water pipeline that came through our area. I was a junior Civil Engineer, working pipeline observation, compaction testing in the soils lab, and setting control and checking pipeline placement on the survey crew.

After the state, I worked for Pacific Bell as a design engineer for almost 6 years. Towards what ended up being the end of my phone company career (and my last "real" job), I built a home on Cabrillo Court in Grover Beach. It was completed right after 9-11, late September 2001. Subsequently, I bought another lot and built a 3-home project, while working for Pacific Bell. During that project, my friend Grant and I had a conversation that changed my life...he suggested I should do two projects, not just one. I told him "oh, I couldn't do two projects and work at the phone company." His response: "sounds like you have a decision to make." Soon after that, in the span of 4 months in late 2003, I quit my job with the phone company, our second child Georgia was born, and the three homes were completed and sold. I've been a home builder ever since, and have now (as of August 2024) completed 88 homes (nearly all in Grover Beach for some reason) and have another 14 currently under construction and another 24 in various stages of the approval process.

Thank you for your interest in my campaign. I'd be honored to receive your vote on or before November 5, 2024. Let's rebuild the board!