I would wake up every day to go to a job where I was a cog in the machine. I had bought into the "American dream" mantra and my wife and I were daily paying for it as we worked our two jobs each. We were barely earning enough to pay the interest on our loans and our apartment rent. Our savings disappeared quickly as one car broke down and had to be fixed. We knew we had to do something as we were at the end of our rope. Then I met Petra. Petra was a laid back gentleman I had met in my local community college. We took a few classes together and he seemed to not really have a care in the world....