The Journey of an Inquiring Mind: From Scholar Naval Officer and Entrepreneur to Novelist

This memoir records in great detail Gary Slaughters life of work during the 40 years before he met his wife Joanne and the story of their business lives together over the past 40 years.Garys life of work included a wide variety of careers jobs sports and hobbies that he mastered during the eight decades of his life. Using his award-winning story-telling ability he describes his life of work beginning with his first entrepreneurial endeavor as a six-year-old egg merchandizer on his grandparents farm.Garys junior-high school career as a bait-supplier netted money to pay for 11/2 years of college. Odd jobs throughout high school increased the fund.Honing his business acumen through his college years at the University of Michigan he traces his Naval career highly successful information-technology businesses and finally his decades-long career as an award-winning novelist.