Great Profiles

It’s rare to find people who are able to make a living doing what they love.  Everybody tries, everybody has a dream of what they want to be when they’re young: a fireman, doctor, rock n’ roll star.  But as we get older we somehow stray away from those dreams, not necessarily by choice, but because of certain circumstances and compromises we must make.  Before we know it, we’re working at some business, selling products we’ve never heard of or waking up at five every morning to dig holes and lay bricks and basically, be unhappy.  We didn’t make it, were not doing what we want or what were good at.  It’s because we made one too many compromises or waited too long to do anything about our life and got stuck in these roles we never would have pictured ourselves in.

Greg Hill Jr. is 32.  He sits in an empty classroom at the University of Montana’s Liberal Arts building.  He looks stressed, comfortably stressed, like he’s been feeling this way for a while.  He’s a writer.  He sits on a small wooden desk.  He wears a dark goatee and has thick black hair that seems pasted to his forehead.  Thinly framed glasses border his eyes, which are constantly making eye contact.  He looks Italian and personable.  Hill teaches ENEX 101, a writing course required for most majors at UM.  When he’s not instructing English, he’s studying and writing poetry. Full profile