"As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?" - N.B., Vancouver, WA

I read in an FBI interview report that my brother said I always wanted to be a criminal when I grew up, and he always wanted to be a cop. But, that's not what I remember.

I remember wanting to be an astronaut, and going to the moon, when I was a young child. As a teenager I wanted to join the Air Force and become an F-16 jet pilot.

After I was sent to prison I decided that I wanted to be a commercial saturation diver. I even contacted the Divers Institute of Technology in Seattle for information about their training programs. I found out that you must be under 25 to start a career as a commercial diver. So, when my sentence got stretched to over 15 years I was forced to abandon that dream as well.