My first job was in a grocery store, my boss, held a % my , as income tax and Social Security. My mother made him recoup the loss by threatening to tell the authorities for having an under age working for him. He paid my mother the accumulated , she keeping half herself as my part for the household. I later worked in a supermarket, working 32 hours a week, so going to school and getting good grades became less important, in school near the bottom of my class, I was able to do well enough in my studies to be accepted into one of the city's many Community Colleges, in a sales and marketing path.
Uncle Sam drafted me for the Vietnam war. I enlisted in the Air Force rather than being drafted into the Army or the Marines. I achieved the rank of Sergeant and was awarded several service connected commendations and awards.

After being discharged, I then enrolling in University of Maryland taking majors of Transportation/Logistics and Business Administration. I graduated in the Spring of 75. I also took a couple of technology courses, in the computer sciences. Again, I also worked in retail stores, as the amount of my GI education benefits was the same given to my father, 25 years earlier.

I married my first wife in 76, with an instant family of two boys. That marriage lasted until the fall of 82. When, a year of kiting checks from our only checking account, fed almost entirely by me, I took away the check book so she told me to leave, while in front of witnesses. So, I left and she divorced me. I lived in an apartment for two years.

I met a woman in the same complex, and we eventually decided we were compatible enough to buy our own house and lived together. The relationship was an open one, We regularly did share each other's bed. She was a military nurse and took a 2 year assignment oversea. By the time she returned, I fell in love with another woman. The house was sold, I took my proceeds, purchased a townhouse. That love faded as she also traveled extensively and did not choose to have me accompany her, so the attrition of the situation set in and I dissolved the relationship.

I have worked continually from the time I was 28 for 30 yeas in the IT industry, Then after I took a Master's Degree in Education of special needs and performed that work for 10 years in the Baltimore City School System, until I was attacked by several 17 year old students with behavioral disabilities, resulting in injuries to my right leg preventing me from performing my teaching duties effectively, thus not having my contract continued.

Again I fell in love with a woman who also had two boys from her first marriage, We married, and I moved into her home and we lived in a somewhat loveless marriage due primarily because of the constant disagreements we had regarding her elder son, who from the start resented me being in the family and requiring a portion of his mother's attention from him and that I was more of a consistent rule manager than she was regarding that 's upbringing, even to the extent of requesting her to uphold the many agreements we had made of having that perform routine household chores, We were married for nearly 31 years, when that , then 42 years old, living in the home those years, contributing nothing, decided he was going to punch me in the face as and I struck him back in the same, bloodying his lip, His mother decided that was not an so she threw me out of her home.

Since then, which has been two years and a divorce she prosecuted against me, I have lived in an apartment. Shortly after moving into my new residence, I was the victim of a premeditated automobile collision that left me with a more injured right leg which after two years, resulted in the need to have a whole hip replacement which I have recently had performed. The past two years of my life have been spent living in my apartment with little outside activities because of a painful and crippled right leg.

I am now on the road to recovery and am beginning to pursue a social life outside of a marriage and a handicap as a healthy and vital male individual, surviving and stronger for the overcoming of the problems I have had imposed upon me.problems I have had imposed upon me.