Paul Lawrence:  

Life After an illustrious career as a burn out in high school and passing with marginal grades, I went off to BBC and FAU where I essentially did the same thing. By the time I was finished with college I'd gotten tired of partying all the time and I finally became ambitious. Without any contacts, impressive grades or any real skills or experience, I wasn't able to secure a job in my major which was marketing and settled for a job as a management trainee at a rent to own company where I learned how to repo people's home electronics and appliances. After successfully repossessing over 1000 such items I was promoted to manager where I continued to be intensely unhappy. If finally hit a low point in my life by being stuck in a job I hated, being basically broke and having no meaningful romantic relationships. I began reading some positive thinking books such as "The Magic of Thinking Big" and it give me a new outlook. I decided to find a career that would make me happy. I stumbled across ballroom dancing (in high school as a loyal burnout I not only didn't dance but believed that anyone who liked disco was probably gay. But once I started going to clubs I discovered how valuable dancing was with girls, so I taught myself to dance modestly decently.) Frankly, I started on the ballroom dancing as a way to meet more girls, but I discovered I really liked it. Over a couple of years I built up a decent business teaching private lessons and was at least paying my bills and enjoying what I did. The dancing also greatly improved my social life (partially because of the dancing and probably just the added confidence which I so lacked in high school.) I got lucky enough to be featured in the newspaper a few times and suddenly my family was proud of me. Then, disaster struck and I developed a very unusual degenerative joint disease in both of my big toes and almost overnight b...Expand for more