William Freedman:  

Life After getting out of Hofstra I didn't know what I wanted to do (those of you living around Allentown may remember I was DJing at weddings for a while) and ended up drifting down to Florida and eventually got a job writing for the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. In 1991, I took a leave of absence and volunteered for civilian work on an Israeli Defense Forces tank base during the Gulf War. The following year, I went back to school and got my MBA from The American University in Washington, DC. I married Eileen, a friend of my Hofstra roommate, during grad school. Afterwards, I spent a year as a full-time dad before we moved to New York and I went to work as finance editor for a trade journal called Chemical Week. A couple years later, I was recruited by Deutsche Bank Securities as an associate stock analyst. My brilliant Wall Street career lasted about eight months before I was laid off. I went...Expand for more