I Graduated College in 2008 Not the Best Time to Graduate College

I was one of like 20% of my graduating class to have a job leaving college which is a very usually that percentage is inverse it's 80% versus right. Went off went up to DC have a job for a year got laid off unfortunately moved back to Richmond Virginia and was just working like retail jobs anything I could pick up. Eventually met Duke Dotson who owned the company at the time he needed some help two weeks later he called me saying hey can you come in for  a couple days while I hire somebody else. After about a month Duke said hey I can't really find anybody else that I like so do you just want to stay on for a while I said all right