Pierce Presley:  

I did a very unproductive year at UALR after high school and discovered I really didn't want to be an engineer. Having no clue what I wanted to be, I joined the Marines for a five-year hitch. Things got interesting, but I managed to get both a Good Conduct Medal and an honorable discharge. I went to Loyola University New Orleans and got a communications degree (photojournalism and writing). I went to work at the Benton County Daily Record newspaper in Bentonville, got married, moved to Little Rock so the wife could finish her degree in less than half a decade (long story), worked for the Associated Press until their money ran out and had my first kid while unemployed. After a year of looking, I got a gig at AETN as a publicist and actually lasted for over fourteen months before the stress of hating what I was doing got the better of me and I quit. Soon thereafter, we had our second kid while I was unemployed. I worked for the Democrat-Gazette for a little while, until they learned that I'd called the executive editor a fool years ago. We moved to Cheverly, Mary...Expand for more