David Medlock:  

Life After highschool I joined the Oregon Army National Guard, ostensibly to be a legal specialist. My REAL job was to fill out other soldiers' life insurance cards. On the bright side I spent two weeks out of the year driving a truck into the desert to dig a hole. Then I sat in the hole, pointed my rifle out into the sage brush and waited for pretend bad guys. In six years, they never showed up. I enjoyed it, though, and met some truly good people. Then on to college, where the government paid my rent (thanks, GI Bill!) and where, more importantly, I fell in love with my wife Joy. That alone was worth the price of tuition. I (foolishly) spent four years getting licensed as a social studies teacher. Since Oregon is littered with social studies teachers, most of whom coach, I was pretty close to unemployable. I couldn't coach a hopscotch team. So I took a job teaching alternative education. I didn't like it much, but I didn't want to fail at it either, so I stuck with it for three years. At the beginning of the fourth year it hit me: I really DID like it. ...Expand for more