Andrew Allison:  

After leaving RU, I briefly attended Wayne State before going to work full time. I worked in the record industry until the mid nineties. During this period I moved to Chicago but lacking maturity and the proper financial resources to do it correctly I ended up having to tuck my tail between my legs, accept my failure, and return home after being there for just a few months. In '99 I got an opportunity to move to Dallas, TX which I jumped on. While in Dallas I worked at a couple of different jobs, the first one being a restaurant mgr , the other was bartending. It was my desire to return to school that required my leaving the management position at a four star restaurant for night time bartending in a nightclub. It freed up my schedule for school during the day and still allowed me to make enough money to avoid making too many sacrafices. I attended a sattelite of The University of Phoenix in Dallas where I was working toward a degree in applied science in order to become a court reporter. A year before I was to finish I experienced an extremely traumatic event in my lif...Expand for more