Thomas Fenix:  

My family moved around the country a bit - on average, once every four years. All that moving taught me how to quickly connect with people. (My capacities in sales are probably due to all the experiences I had meeting new people over the years.) After graduating high school I spent a few years going to college classes at Henderson State University, but I did not have much of a plan for exiting - and after four years I was informed I still had four years to go to complete my bachelors degree (prerequisite order and such) so I dropped out of college to get some understanding of why a college degree was really important. It did not take long to discover that the job opportunities for someone without a college degree are very limited, so I completed an associates degree at a Community College in Hot Springs (then: Garland County Community College, now: National Park Community College) and managed to talk my way into some really nice graphic design positions (print shops, grocery store circulars, the Malvern Daily Record newspaper and even a Little Rock Ad agency) but decided the associates degrees tend to earmark me as "expendable" (the jobs were mostly short term, when they needed help in high volume times) when my stubborn nature of wanting things be done in an organized way made me a bit of a thorn in my employers side. ...Expand for more