Would you believe, daycare center owner?

Once upon a time, I was a database administrator/developer. When my wife was pregnant in 2002, she couldn't find a daycare center she liked, so despite having the world's sweetest telephone voice, she quit her phone support job to open her own center (not in-home). And I helped, a lot.

It grew, and I left my other job in 2004, though on paper she was still sole proprietor.

Then tragically in 2010, both she and the center's director were killed in a freeway accident with a semi when the semi driver decided it was a good idea to pull over through an on-ramp's merge.

Somehow I was able to keep the center alive, I incorporated it and found people to run it, and it is still going strong with around ten employees, at this point I only spend around five hours a week on it myself.

I am also working on getting my resale shop open, although the real money there is in eBaying out the back. I myself can't believe all the stuff I've piled up for that purpose.

The majority of my time is used up single parenting my now 14-year-old girl, which is ordinarily difficult enough, but part of her head is still stuck being a seven-year-old whose mommy was ripped away from her in an instant and who understandably fears the worst from any given situation.