Richard Wheaton:  

I have worked full time, for the most part, since I graduated from Bremen. I held full time jobs even while attending college but I could never find a real interest, so I took only those classes that interested me. Therefore I have no degree. It lead to many interesting vocations, most of them short lived, until at age 21 I took a job as office manager (Gopher) with a tunnel contractor out of Detroit. I was considered too small and too stupid to be allowed down in the "Hole" as it is very dangerous work. So with a little thought I convinced the night superintendent, with a bottle of scotch,to allow me access to the tunnel while the tunnel machie was boring. What a RUSH! I immediately knew what I wanted to do as far as a vocation. By age 35 I felt that I might know enough to start my own business and survive. So at age 35 we moved to Houston, Texas (married less than one year with her two children-her prior husband killed in an auto accident and me divorced two years prior) and joined up, as an equal partner, with someone who had been in business for many years. I didn't know the man except for a 1 hour meeting that was arranged by someone else I really didn't know through a vendor that the man I was working for at the time used as a suppl...Expand for more