How do I print a value from a custom user field on page.tpl?
First I want to thank @mototribe and @Kimi for helping me figure this out.  I was able to get access to my field by putting 

&lt;?php 
global $user;
$user_fields = user_load($user-&gt;uid);
$MYVARIABLE = $user_fields-&gt;field_MYFIELD;
?&gt;


at the start of my page.tpl.  Then I had to print it out by adding this to my page  &lt;?php print $MYVARIABLE['und'][0]['value'];?&gt;