Hello, I'm Timothy, and this is my story.

I've lived in Manhattan for the first half of my life before we had to move to Chicago because of a little situation. I'm thirty four, and I've taught in schools for as long as I can remember. For some reason, I couldn't get a good job after college, so I settled for teaching, even though it could hardly pay my monthly bills.

My parents were comfortable, and I was already too old to be a burden, especially when they warned me against doing a terrible course, or not fighting enough to get a good job.

At thirty, I was still a...