Bo Barber

If "who we are" is defined by which jobs we've had; if our biography is a list of the work we've done and the places we've been and the people we've met, and if each of those things is like a item of clothing-- a little worn, a little soiled, not-quite-new, -- then my life looks a lot like a whole hamper-full of laundry.

I started a list once trying to itemize the jobs I've held. I intentionally left off stuff like "bag-boy at Safeway" because that was one of a whole sub-genre of kid-jobs I held back in my youth.

And I left off stuff that I didn't do for long enough to consider it a "real" job. And if I didn't make any money at it, I left it off because it really had to be considered a hobby.

So then I had this list:

Radio announcer/DJ

Drummer, rock band

Air Force pilot

New-home salesman

Commercial Real estate broker

Real estate developer

Finance manager- car dealership

Airline Pilot-major airline: Captain, Boeing 737

Flight Operations Coordinator-major airline

Record producer and music publisher

If I were a human resources kinda person, I KNOW I wouldn't likely hire someone who came in with a resume that looked like that. The olde biography is...umm...muddled and inconsistent. Sounds a lot like a guy can't keep a job.

But, notwithstanding all that, it has given me a rather expansive bucket of subject-matter, and I've always been a writer.

Thanks for looking in.

Apologies for the aroma of dirty laundry.