Kenneth Clary:  

I graduated from Friendswood High School in 1979. I was a serious minded person, quiet and more shy than you can imagine. I was intrigued with popular music and reading. The Alan Parson's Project was one of my favorite bands back then. I always had a book going even back then as sort of an alternate universe that I could escape into whenever I needed. Both music and reading was, and is still a form of escapism that I use to fight stress. I spent some time working at Astroworld as a rides operator in the summers between school and immediately after High School, which opened me up to different people and ways of thinking. I ran the Wagon Wheel and the Gunslinger. It came as quite a shock when they shut down the park a couple of years ago.... After High School, I immediately began working in the oil industry with mainframe computers, doing mostly data processing and some programming. Back then they were more willing to train on the job since it was such a new field. I worked for a large oil company for a long time. At the same time, I worked on a bachelors degree in Political Science at night that took me years and years and years ...Expand for more