Brief Author Bio:

I wandered through college taking audio/visual production- radio/TV/film knowing I couldn't work those fields due to the competitive nature. I'd always been into computers, but straigh programming was to boring for me. At the end of college I discovered multimedia, and dove in head first, becoming an expert.

After college, my professor in multimedia got me my first job- As a Virtual Reality Developer in Chicago. Great start, but things went downhill fast. The development industry, regardless of company, is inappropriate-deadline driven, and I spent the next eight years working 7 days a week, year round, 10-24 hours a day. Time off? Only for exhaustion and time between companies.

One company failed to pay me $7800 for my wages one month, and this act ruined my credit rating to this day. I was forced to move back to Michigan, and live in my mom's basement (I'd never lived with her.) My last job in 2000-2002 started great, until we merged with another division of developers who used office politics to force me out.

Due to these experiences, I've been unemployed since 2002, unable to find work I can do. I love writing, but six authors have told me you can't make enough to live on writing. I have generalized anxiety disorder, and can not receive full health care under the current US for-profit system.

So, I've been wasting away watching my life go by, with no family and no kids: Which I feel is a failure at life (for me) if I do not pass on my DNA and morals to my children, it'll be as if I never existed upon my death.

Hopefullly President Obama can succeed despite the wishes of the Warpublican party and pass reform, giving me access to mental health professionals who may be able to help me.

Otherwise, I'm just a wasted space getting in the way of others with value.