After my freshman year of college, I went back to Milwaukee for the summer. I worked for a corporate landscape company and spent the summer hedging shrubs and trees. I regularly worked 10 hours a day...and this was the summer in the mid-90's that was so hot that over 300 people died of heat-related incidents just down the road in Chicago. The crew chief, one of the year-round employees, looked me over at the end of a day when I was particularly sweat-soaked and grimy. "Hey Fisher, hard work, huh? Pretty good motivation to go back and study your ass off." And I did, but now I'm amused at the thought that getting a degree and working … [Read more...]