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And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine.

I'd been going to college for nine years, and before I completed my dissertation, I quit.

I graduated from college in 1980.

After my health suffered due to the stress of running my second company, I had to switch careers. But I still didn't want to go back to the corporate world. So I became an academic.

I graduated in 2009, which - if you think back to where the economy was at that time - was an interesting time to graduate.

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

Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.

And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again.