After graduation I joined the U.S. Army as a Chemical Operations Specialists. While in the Army I got stationed in Manheim, Germany. While in Germany I trained with several European Militaries, traveled across Europe hitting every Pub along the way and met alot of interesting people. Germany is also where I met my wife. I got stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington. Due to injuries I exited the Army with a Honorable Discharge in June 1995 and I started work as a Hazardous Waste Tech. after exiting the Army and worked for about a year. In 1996 went to school at the Art Institute of Seattle for Commercial Photography and then on Oct 31 I married my wife Kari . I realized that the job market in photography was really competive so I went back to doing Hazardous Waste in 1998 and soon became a Still Operator for a local Paint Solvent recycling company. When the company got bought out in 2001 I started work for a local Security company as an Armed Guard and the was trained to as a Bike Patrolman through the City of Tacoma, at the same time an old Army buddy of mine started his own business as a Fugitive Recovery Agent and I was a co-investor and operator with his company. In 2005 I started work with the U.S. Army again but this time as a civialn. Training Troops for combat situations. That job came to a close on 26 April 2006 and I stared work as a Hazardous Waste Disposer at the Yakima Training Center