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Well, there was about a 10 year period where I was uncertain what I wanted to do. I was working a dead-end job and had very few goals. In 1991 I moved to San Diego, I was in a transitional stage of my life and needed to move away from home. I had friends who moved there a few years before I did and they were begging me to come out. It turned out that San Diego was just too far from friendly old Berea, so homesick old me moved back about 6 months later. I came back to my dead-end job and basically was a slacker for about 6 years. Something sparked and lit a fire under my feet. I went back to school and finished my Associates Degree, after that I started taking the MCSE classes at ITT. About 8 years ago I started doing part-time IT consulting. With the job market here in Cleveland, that's all you can really get when you're starting out. I did that for around 3 years, along with my dead-end job. I gained enough experience and ended up finding a great job with a great company doing exactly what I like doing.
Did I mention that during the time I was getting my degree in IT and working two part time jobs that I also took acting classes at Tri-C? In the fall of 1994 I needed some elective courses, I somehow ended up in Acting I. From the first day I was hooked. I found exactly what I was born to do. It turns out that all of that energy that I spent disrupting my classes in high school was misdirected. I was born to be an actor! I took every acting class that Tri-C offers, twice. I have done 20 shows at Tri-C West(more than anyone ever) and was nominated in 2001 to compete in the Irene Ryan (yes, Granny from the Beverly Hillbillies) acting competition at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival at Evansville Indiana. I didn't win, the competition is very tough, but I had the time of my life. So besides all that, I really don't do much. I work, I work out and I fix the occasional PC. I've never been married and don't have any children. I live a pretty quiet life in Berea.
