raised in a 4 room house near the steel mill where my dad worked; excelled at sports and fighting; got to college on a swimming scholarship; dropped out of college after 1st year (due to boredom) and went to Europe and somehow survived alone for a year; somehow graduated and was immediately sent to Air Force Pilot Training ; suffered severe injuries and spent six months in a military hospital; expected to die but disappointed the doctors; medical discharge as a disabled veteran; got M.Ed. and taught elementary school while going to evening law school; became a trial lawyer; decided to get into an honest profession and became a law professor; interspersed among these years I managed to be: a father of 6 boys (one deceased) and 3 girls and grandfather to 9 (# is still growing); a radio talk show host; a regular on a morning TV show, a candidate for US Congress; a stage actor and director; a member of a performing tap dancing troupe; an oldies singer; a bit part actor in the motion picture industry; a Field Investigator for the Mutual UFO Network and writer of a book on orange orbs (type of UFO)
At present, I am trying to decide what I want to do when I grow up. It will come to me one of these days.