I currently work in Alberta's energy sector as an industrial and mechanical insulator.  I work for a small company that I am pretty comfortable with and have signed on for two years with them provided they commit to providing me with my schooling for my trade.

I'm currently going through alot of changes in my life and I think I am taking positive steps towards reaching where I want to be.  I have started to work out regularly and eat healthier meals.  I am working on fixing my credit situation.  I have too many creditors and a spendthrift lifestyle.  I am working at being a happier person in general and my accomplishments in my other focus areas are greatly contributing to that.

During highschool I hovered around 250 lbs.  In my adult working life I dropped and hovered around 195 pounds and most recently after starting a more regimented plan of diet and exercise I am currently at my lowest weight of 172 pounds.

As a teenager I can say I had lots of behavioural issues and a strained relationship with my parents.  Several times it came to a breaking point and I had physical fights with my father, holes in the drywall and broken windows.  Resulting in visits from the police, spending time in jail, emergency placement group homes for troubled kids, extended stays with foster parents and close to a year in a wilderness boot camp.

After moving out and trying to make my own way I got mixed up with gang members and cocaine.  I started partying with cocaine on payday weekends and it seemed very quickly I was snorting on weeknights.  I was fired from my job for blowing off work three days in a row to party instead and ended up having to move back home for a period.

I moved around through companies alot until just recently when I made a commitment to sign on to my current company for 2 years.  I was never really satisfied with where I was working and rather then deal with the issues at hand I misbehaved and screwed around on company time until either I wasnt really welcomed anymore or I had just had enough and quit.

Now that I am working out and trying to be healthier I joked with a friend that this time next year I would have a harem of women to oil my "six pack".  I will continue to work towards how I want to look and how I really percieve myself inside.  In the future I will be fluent in several languages including Japanese, Italian, and French.  My friends will be trying to keep up to me on our downhill moutain bikes rather then the opposite.  I will be a journeyman in my trade and hold a management position within my company to assist my boss in growing larger then hes been yet.  My wife and I will travel often with our two children and my kids will get an invaluable education about life and themselves through this.