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Let me begin by saying that my parents were raised during the depression where any work you could get that was steady and paid steady was a good job. They taught me to value all the work that I had ever done that way. I mostly bounced form job to job as I got older because I had lost that youthful enthusiasm and had begun to have the wrong attitude towards work. Ironically I left one great job for what I thought of as a better job because it had always been my dream.

My Dream Job! Which I one was that again?

I have had many jobs through the years because I did not want to go to college and get a career. I just went out and got a job. I could have gone to college in the beginning but I didn't. I did not know what I wanted to spend all that money on and I was afraid of dropping out and being stuck with all those student loans

My First Job out of high school was as a cashier at a Hardware Store/Lumber Yard. They were training me to become a salesman there and I was reading up on the industry in the DIY book section. That is until my brother asked me to go into business with him as a Carpet Installer. I had worked for him doing that in high school. I agreed but later changed m mind because I found a better job. That job was my first dream job! That's right my first!

I became a compounder for a large privately owned cosmetic company. It was a ground floor job it would go anywhere in the company you wanted to go as long as you worked hard, paid your dues and got along with management. This was my second brush with Corporate America. My First was when I worked at a package handling company in High School. I fell in love with Corporate America and there was a lot of prestige in manufacturing the cosmetics that the company sold.

I worked there for 4 years and had spent a bit of time going to school to be a Chemical Engineer on the company's dime. I didn't get far in school though. I did flunk out but not because I wasn't up to the job more because I had a scheduling conflict. I also wound up quitting the job because they had changed their hiring policies and had begun to hire un-rehabilitated ex-cons usually drug addicts of some kind. I had gotten mixed up with one somehow and if you've ever read "The Picture of Dorian Grey" then you've met the ex-con I knew. I quit the job out of disgust. I decided against pursuing my career as a Chemical Engineer and I got a job working with my brother.

That and many other jobs afterwards did not last long. A year

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