Richard Muller:  

How does a New York City boy end up in the sleepy suburbs of Spartanburg, South Carolina? How does an introverted Computer Science major become a Senior Sales Manager? My life changed May 17, 1992. It was the day after my last college exam. That's when I got the call, that my mother was dead. She walked into the hospital about a month earlier for tests, discovered she had lung cancer, was set for treatment, when pneumonia set in and took her life. Having no brothers and sisters, and blaming my father for all that had happened (they were divorced two weeks before her death -- her wish, not his), my aunt and uncle convinced me to move to Richmond, VA and escape from New York. I ended up working for a small computer software company that made software for pharmacies. Being a small company, it gave me chances to show my abilities, and it was discovered that despite my intoversion, I was good at explaining the system and started public speaking and going on site to visit customers. During this time I met my first wife, Carla. I wish I could explain why I married her, the best I can come up with is that I thought I could fix her. I couldn't, and due to her habits, nearly had to file for bankruptcy. We separated, she broke into my rental townhouse and I had to get a restraining order. No kids, thank goodness for that. The last time I talked to her was April, 1999. She tried reaching out a couple of times for closure, but when I decided to break away I had already reached closure and didn't want to open up old wounds. Maybe that's selfish of me, but felt it was best. In August, 1998 my company was bought out by QS/1, who was our "enemy". Because of bad feelings harbored by the staff, I...Expand for more