After closing the business, I got a job working at a gas station.  For 3 1/2 years, I dedicated myself to providing excellent service — always on time and never called out.  The store was later bought out by a new company and management was fired.  I submitted my resume for management, and they laughed at me.  It was a humiliating experience and made me reflect on how I ended up at that point in my life.  I concluded that I needed to go back to school, so I put in my 2 week notice and enrolled at Ashford University as a business major.  For almost a year, I felt like I was wasting time again because I had already known business.  That lead me back to the drawing board.