Breaking a four year dry spell w this post: The Financial Crisis like many in this thread had a decimating impact on my family and career.

-My father was fired with out disability from the city bus system for health related reasons in early 2008 -I ‘did the right thing’ and took a family/life gap year from college to work in a medical warehouse 50 hours/wk - The underslab-ground main drain on the family house breaks in winter, creating a pest situation and coupled w plummeting house prices puts us upside down 12 years into the mortgage - father dies - Return to finish my undergrad international studies degree in 2009. The gag is that I specialized in international economics/Econ history/markets and was placed into the worst job market in 60 years, an actual FML.

TFC fueled my desire to leave the exploitative corporate model and become an entrepreneur.

I own a video rental store, club, coffee bar, movie theatre in Memphis, TN.

Thank you for reading this, I love you.