Dear Sgt Bud,

I was thinking about my time spent as a kid and what I wanted to be. I wanted to be a cowboy , then a Marine as I got a little older. I did not want more! I had no higher aspirations that I can remember.

I was only a "c" student at best. So the Marines was my choice. After several years I realized that a guy could get killed doing that type of work! Then of course the opportunity came along to get out early on the extension to go to school , so I became a student. My goal was to graduate from the school of social and behavioral sciences at Ohio State University, of all things in Sociology, so very practical indeed. Ha Ha!

I attended some graduate courses in statistics and education and then went to law school at Capitol Law School while working at the City Attorneys  land Acquisition Office, then for the County Prosecutor as an investigator in the Special Investigations Unit.Mostly dealing with Organized crime. Then police officer in Colorado.I still did not have a plan for the rest of my life.

I moved to California and sold security systems to the rich people, worked in the movie industry as a location manager which seemed to fit me best and certainly paid the best. I probably worked at this for 17 or 18 years.The movie job had lots of benefits, health dental, travel, lots of it.After heart attacks and earth quakes they wouldn't hire me any more so I went back to criminal law. just to make some money. then as you know a missionary for 8 years. I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up!Pathetic eh?

Sgt Steve