I have been a folksinger, a radio shack employee, a jewelry engraver, a computer technician, a guitar teacher, a worm picker, a newspaper columnist, an assembly line worker, a gas station attendant, a government employee, and what the heck else...most of which had its appropriate time and place.

I now run a small manufacturing business, and pontificate on the Internet. The first pays well, the second keeps my mind occupied in an enjoyable but largely useless fashion.

The only thing I ever wanted to be all that badly was a folksinger, but it was not a very workable way to earn a living, given my basic temperament.