Steve Erickson:  

Life After school I took the rest of 1976 off, Romantisizing Jack Kerouac and others I hitched a ride on freight trains and semi's, hitting most all the lower 48. I took day work and sold plasma for beer money. I found quick there are lots of hard work jobs that let you travel in a better style. I met some wonderfull people over the next few years working in the Oilfield, and heavy construction and as a Inspector down in Texas and around the Gulf coast. Went to welding school after mom died and ended up down in Austrailia for most of the 1980's. I had a wife while there and learned there was more to life and it's proper living then I had previously thought. A decade in a far off country made me much more self reliant,and a much humbler man. While there I furthered my education a bit, got some more experience in Quality Assurance and Construction. In 1990 I returned back to the states. I met Joyce in Laurel Md. we fell in love and married. She has in fact saved my life I see now, as she gave me somthing to believe in and somthing bigger than myself to live for. I sobered up entirely around 15 years ago and have been living as clean and serene as possible. I worked for the State of Va. for a while as an inspector and then for a few years workin...Expand for more