I have worked as a: bike messenger in DC, stringer journalist, commercial fisherman in Alaska, book buyer @ Amazon in their first year, maker of international sales reports @ Starbucks corporate HQ, door to door fundraiser for Sierra Club/WashPIRG, payroll specialist @ WAMU, auditor @ IBM, mover of mega-fabric info @ Nordstrom’s HQ, assistant in the model’s wardrobe closet at old Bon Marche in-house advertising office, video game tester, vegan prep cook, insurance claims adjudicator, federal government clerk, trailer checker, waiter, assistant to a real estate sales manager (also assnt to: DC film publicist, some pharmacists in South Park, the COO and CEO’s assnt at Harborview), day laborer (ditch-digging, construction, cleaning the insides of massive, drydocked fishing boats) and life guard – are just some of my past day jobs.

Additionally, I have volunteered as an intern for the Smithsonian publicity department, an extra in a John Waters film, a production assistant on one of Seattle’s worst independent movies and at Left Bank Books in the Pike Place Market.

But really, I always wanted to be a novelist.