#1 The year I got serious about my trapline and profited over $1,000.00 before Christmas. Pretty good considering I wasn't old enough to drive yet.
#2 Waterways patrolman for a chain of payfishing lakes in Ohio. A kid couldn't ask for a better way to spend a summer.
#3 Racing our beat up Mercury Sno Twisters on the undercards at USSA events in the U.P. and Wisconsin. 'Thought it was a blast till I woke up in a hospital in Eagle River, Wisconsin and had to have the nurse tell me how she was at the races and saw me take out a chunk of fence in the third turn when my steering failed. 'Decided it was time for a career change after that. "Dyin' ain't much of a livin'"
