When younger I did not know what I would do when older. I've never had a career, so to speak. My formal education is sporadic. I have not completed, nor is it likely that I ever will complete, a four-year degree. Yet I've done much to educate myself out of a sense of curiosity and necessity on college campuses and through personal study.
My first job was as a packer for a moving company in Northern Virginia. It didn't last long. I had neither the stamina nor the enthusiasm for it. I also worked in a car wash/gas station for a while. For three weeks I drove a taxi.
From construction laborer I moved up to carpenter and cabinet maker, and for a while I was a general contractor building houses and doing residential and small business remodeling. I built one of the several houses I've lived in over the years.
I wrote for three weekly newspapers and a small number of magazines, mostly about woodworking.
I have licenses to practice massage therapy in Oregon and Washington. I teach kinesiology and anatomy & physiology at a massage school.
I've had seven books published. To publish the most recent one, I created my own imprint, Parami Press. I am a member of the Independent Book Publishers Association and am president of the Northwest Association of Book Publishers.
I followed my curiosity and applied myself to what interested me and what I found necessary to do. Although I didn't foresee as much, it turns out I have a modest body of work to look back on. Here is some of it.