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I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.

I got a job working at a publishing company, Balmur Music, which was a company that Anne Murray was a co-owner in, as a tape copy guy. Eventually, I got fired from that job.

Eventually I became involved with somebody, and I was fired.

I started working in the mid-to-late Seventies, when television was not what it is now.

Everything went wrong for me in the 1990s.

Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.

I happened to fall into a job that wound up being a seminal piece of television history, which was a show I did on HBO called 'The Wire.' That experience really set the bar for me and opened a lot of doors. It also gave me a lot of street cred in terms of my phone ringing and job offers.

Well, that was in 1995 when I resigned from my last academic job.

When I was 22, I was thrown out of graduate school and then fired from three jobs in a row at higher and higher salaries where I saved nothing.

I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money.