Wayne Perkins:  

Life Here's the readers digest condensed version of what I've been up to for the last 22 years. I bummed around for about a year before I thought it would be a good idea to go back to school. I was on the "Pay as you go when you could afford it plan" of going to college, but I finally graduated from Bowie State University in 1994 with a B.S. in Communications Media. I worked briefly as an intern and in the traffic and continuity department at W.P.G.C AM and FM Stations in Greenbelt. Sounds impressive but it was'nt. I worked a variety of jobs over the years. I was a pari-mutual clerk(sort of like a bookie) at Rosecroft Raceway, Worked for a computer company, ran a catering company, sold insurance and did financial planning, worked for the Ford Motor Company as a customer service representative for a few years. Now all these seemed like dead-end jobs on the fast-track to nowhere until I got into what I'm doing now. Finally I thought I'd give Funeral Service a try. I got a part-time job working at a funeral home in Annapolis working visitations and doing removals. I liked it because it was something new everyday, and I was always looking for work where I thought I would make some sort of difference in people's lives. So in August of 2004 I packed my bags and moved to Loveland, Ohio outside of Cincinnati and attended The Cincinnati College of Mortuary Scien...Expand for more