Originally Posted by Rochard

I am not.

When I was a teenager my goals were pretty simple. I worked in a small "family restaurant", was enrolled at the culinary school in high school (our school had a restaurant open to the public built into the school), and then wanted to join the Marines to become a cook and then onto a professional culinary school.

Somewhere alone the line I got into drugs, and dropped out of high school. I was pretty much homeless and working a series of crappy dead end jobs, and was getting deeper and deeper into drugs. A chance encounter with a Marine recruiter and some help from a friend to quickly get me off drugs, and a week later I was in boot camp.

Eventually I got my GED and went onto college.