Charles (TC) Birosel:
CLASS OF 1975
Mary Immaculate High SchoolClass of 1975
Sao paulo,
Charles (TC)'s Story
Life
After returning to the States, I ran into some serious problems and decided to go to work rather than college. I wasn't wanted by my mother back then (I guess she harbored a grudge) . My first job was through a labor company and I started stapling cloth into coffins. I was living and working in East LA, and rent was cheap for a single bdr. I saved up enough money to buy a motorcycle and bought a chopped Triumph 650cc. I left LA and started to wander wherever I felt like going and ended up in Chico, CA. I met a biker family who I grew pot for indoors. The owner had never seen hydroponics and I made us both a lot of money. I found a full time job working as an assistant foreman at a nut co-op. There were several orchards and I ran the Mexican workers 'cause the foreman couldn't speak Spanish. I didn't bother to tell him I spoke Portuguese. After awhile it got too boring and I was looking for another job besides B&Es while I prospected for a bike club. I went to a carnival and found my niche in life. I worked for traveling carnivals for 20 years, and between seasons I...Expand for more
worked at different jobs that intrigued me. I cowboyed in Texas, I lumberjacked and fished on a trawler in Alaska, taught English to ESL students in East LA, worked construction; buildings and homes, owned a house painting business, sub contracted sheet rock jobs, worked as a life guard, worked an off-shore oil derrick during a hurricane, harvested wheat, hay, soy beans, apple sand other fruits nuts and produce . I set charges in a working gold mine. I even worked as a security guard at The Mustang Ranch. I was married in '86 and was widowed a year later. I married again in '88 and got divorced in late '89 for irreconcilable similarities. My three children were taken from me by CPS in '98 because I was actively using and was addicted to heroin. I got clean and sober in '98 , and now I manage a sober living home in Fresno CA, for men in recovery and work as a councilor for substance abuse.
I hadn't seen any of my family for 20 years, and recently found my twin brother and my sister, Ann.
I can be found through Ann Birosel, who is in Sao Paulo, or send me a note here.
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