A long time ago I noticed that many of the trashy fiction novels that I so enjoy feature a small blurb usually titled "About the Author", and that these pieces often listed all of the silly, minimum-wage jobs the author had before they became successful and well-paid. So in that spirit, at one time or another I have been employed as: a landscape gardener, a pot-washer, a salad grower, a pizza deliverer, an insurance salesman, a bartender, an environmental surveyor, a cookie picker, a traveling salesman, a movie extra, a banana picker, an english teacher, a chef and a debt collector. I am yet to be successful or well-paid.