Bill Ritchie:  

Life Following H.S. graduation I had many odd jobs (disk jockey, security guard on Chinese Ship, monkey trainer, ditch digger, etc.). At one point I supervised all parks department skilled crafts for King county. I hated it. At age 30 I learned that I wasn't marginally retarded, as I had been labeled following testing in third grade (a grade I flunked), rather, I had dyslexia. I decided to give college a try, and spent the next 6 years living in a borrowed 7 X 12 foot trailer that I usually parked where I wouldn't have to pay a fee (forest, wheat field, etc.). I had no bathroom or shower, sometimes ate out of restaurant garbage cans, would pee in a milk carton and poop in a plastic bag (not the same one each time). I loved it. I felt I couldn't afford the time away from school studies that a job would require, I was too slow in reading. I eventually graduated from W.S.U. with a Ph.D in experimental psychology. I now teach internet courses for a large community co...Expand for more