Mark Bothum abandoned a promising career "shooting pool and driving around in old trucks" to dabble in electronics engineering for 15 years. Eventually extracting himself in the clutches of a Fortune 500 firm, he promptly moved to Alaska where he has been a receptionist, unemployed, a fax machine repairman, unemployed, an ATM installer, an alarm technician, a blues guitarist, unemployed, and a locksmith. He's logged almost 100,000 miles in "those little freakin' planes", and recently jumped buck naked into a glacial lake. He adds, "Don't ever do that."

Ken Coffman has held a variety of jobs, including strawberry picker, dishwasher, laborer in a cat food factory, Air Force Sergeant, rock’n’roll bass player, college lecturer, electronics technician, injection-molding machine operator, electrical designer, concert promoter, engineering manager, small business owner, and purveyor of electronics parts. Short attention span or long spiritual quest for achieving oneness with the universe? You decide.

In loving memory of Uncle Donald Lee Coffman
The world lost a good soul on July 16, 2004, RIP