Professional History

The formative years:

My first job at 15 was at one of these large touch-less car washes on Preston Hwy in Louisville, KY. I was the only employee in the place that wasn't an ex-con. The story doesn't get much better than that. I dried cars and rode to lunch with a 40 yr old guy with Samson length hair that blared Metallica on a set of home-wired speakers in the back window of his Monte Carlo. Those were the days; no responsibilities at all. No, actually it was awful, boring and hopeless. The jobs were all that bad until I left for college at Murray State University as an art major and for a good deal of time after that to be truthful. My parents were insanely patient and knew I would get tired of the bouncing around crappy jobs soon enough. To sum it up I've done: serving, roofing, concrete foundations, windows, gutters, siding, painting, backhoe work, outdoor nursery work and planting (this was actually the best of this crop) and a host of other jobs I was never built to do.

Flash forward to 1996 or so:

I lucked into a mail services position at Humana. That is fancy talk for mail delivery boy. Those WERE the days. I had so much fun going from building to building on Main St. in Louisville and spent a large part of my time visiting with people all over the company and trying to figure out why they were the Alpha and I was the Omega. Education was the first obvious choice but I knew that simple determination and the ability to find a job that you could honestly take seriously needed to be in high consideration. I was very lucky at this point to be reserved for tasks that included services for David Jones (founder of Humana and one of the greatest businessmen and people to ever come from Louisville) and the Humana Board of directors. Being around these people taught me a lot about how successful people carried themselves. I learned something even more valuable from Mr. Jones. He used his fortune to better the city and for the good of people around him. He did it and he meant it. The Humana Foundation is still an incredibly generous organization. He really cared about providing health care to the uninsured.

Educational History

I left for college at Murray State University as an art major. I spent a good amount of time socializing instead of taking my studies very seriously. I just couldn't understand why I didn't have all art classes instead of "useless" stuff like math and literature and sociology. I was so stupid. I left there degree-less and started my fine arts studies at the University of Louisville. Same story. After a few years of back-breaking small construction jobs I realized that math and sociology weren't such ridiculous ways to spend my time after all. (more to come - I can't just sit here and talk to myself all of the time)