We had no income, nothing and so it was very scary for a few months until all of a sudden like a pile of money came in from you-know my freelance work and the E-I backdated from like you-know three months and so- and in between that I 'd done freelance work and I 'd done um lots of work on me because I 'm a constant- I found out I had A-D-D when I was twenty-three and it 's something

Speaker: No ah- I worked at Tim-Hortons. ... And then I did an internship at Veteran's-Affairs. ... And then I- I was on E-I for eight months (laughs).

... I was almost eighty-five hours of my percentage for my hours to school but I hadn't got called away to school yet and there was some other little drama that happened and ah basically I was let go from there and I had applied for E-I but I was like- I'm not type of guy to just sit back and- you-know-what-I-mean, especially when I have kids, I had so much motivation and so much fire inside and ah-

And then I found a job at Heath-and-Sherwood on the hill here making almost less than I would if I was on E-I but it- it's still I was working, you-know, and ah I was basically waiting to get on at the mine for (inc) school and they stopped that and added to ah (inc) and then get on for cattle. It's basically ah the best that's ever happened ...

Oh, you can't claim that. "Well why not?" Well as soon as you- as soon as I claim it, right? On the other side of the coin, you've got workman's compensation and E-I and-all-this-shit that goes with it (laughs) right? God pity the kid get hurt and what-not but thank God nothing ever happened.