the deeper truth is I always knew that I would work in government and that it was just a matter of time in which to connect with the right people to prove and demonstrate skills and what I was capable of doing after having lived on the west coast and grown-up in a gang and drug plagued environment during the drug wars of the 1980s and 90s ... I always knew that at some point I would go back to school go to college and get involved in foreign intelligence gathering so I planned it that way and after taking courses off and on at various colleges over a 10-year period of time approximately I had enough credentials to demonstrate proof of concept