Kurt McQuesten:  

Life: I left Bentley and misplaced my blueprint for life. I had to make it up from scratch so I started out finding low paying menial jobs. Then my dad wanted me to become a rigger downtown where he worked. I tried that for a minute and knew that I wasn't cut out for that crap. All the workers were missing fingers, cussing, and drinking their lunch. I escaped with all my digits, but my new vocabulary didn't go well with my damaged brain cells. So I decided I needed to attend college to jump start my life. I attended Schoolcraft for 3 years because I thought it was a 4 year college.(just kidding-sort of) That stint led me to CMU where I had no clue as to what I wanted to do. During my years at Schoolcraft I worked at ST. Vincent-Sarah Fisher Home working with kids who were wards of the court and had a lot of emotional challenges. One of the the teachers there told me that I worked well with this population and I should become a teacher of the Emotionally Impaired. I was still undecided up to the day of registration. I remember walking with my roommates in line as they were all going for a business degree and I kept looking back at the teaching line. It had a hell of a lot more skirts, so I decided to pursue an educational degree based upon the number of females in a line. It was a weak moment, but one that I'll never regret. This led me to a buffet of women which ultimately led me to my mate for life. I told my wife Shannon that I was going to marry her on the first day that we met. She felt pretty special and surprised until she found out I used that same line numerous times prior to that. It all worked out in the end as we kept in contact after college and started a long distance relationship. She lived in Miami, FL and I was teaching in Grand Rapids, MI. I...Expand for more