Hello! I am Fritz Karltin.  I am a unique character who writes about the fifty careers I had out of high school, and that spanned over twenty years. My first job after high school was as an apprentice at a four-star hotel where I learned the food service industry.  After three and a half years of juggling college, work, and battling with a standardized recipe instructor, I dropped out of the program.  This employment led to a turn of events that would change the course of my life.

During my two weeks’ notice at the hotel, I was arrested for mistaken identity, and while waiting months for a jury trial, I had my driver’s license suspended.  After my acquittal, I purchased a one-way ticket on a greyhound bus and headed south to begin two decades taking and quitting jobs as I traveled across the country.  I had over fifty jobs on my “working vacation”.  My only possessions were what I could carry.  I’d bed down on someone’s couch and sometimes my choice was without shelter. I dedicated these 20 years to punishing policies which I followed religiously: 

If I was dumb enough to quit all my jobs, then I would suffer the consequences, and never borrow a dime from anyone.

Navigating my life’s journey with similar principles brought me through many peaks, valleys, and challenges that I describe in my books.  My strange but true stories of my experiences and how they unfolded are too good to keep bottled up.  It is a great honor to team up with Be Happy Nation to share the knowledge of my memoirs that can help all of us grow in this ever-changing world.