MILWAUKEE (PRWEB)
September 10, 2021
Travis Geier dreamt of being an author since he was a child. He spent hours in bookstores and libraries looking at Garfield and Captain Underpants books, but Travis was held back by his learning disabilities. Travis remembers having to go to the CMC, the room for kids who struggled with academics. Later in his adolescence, Travis was diagnosed with type 1 bipolar disorder. On his 18th birthday, after years of little academic effort, Travis dropped out of high school with a second-grade writing level. At age 19, Travis obtained his HSED and started a junk removal business to support himself as an individual with bipolar disorder. The Junk Truck was wildly successful in his community but eventually, Travis’s bipolar disorder caught up with him and he was unable to continue operating the business. Years later, Travis was made fun of online for his writing abilities. This prompted Travis to go back to school to study English so one day he could write a book and share his story of the dirty jobs, drugs, and depravity of The Junk Truck.
“I really had to persevere while going back to school because I was struggling so hard financially due to my addiction and mental illness. One day, I ran out of gas on my way to school and again on my way back because I was so financially unstable when I wasn’t running The Junk Truck anymore. I really took for granted the 12 years that I spent in school because when I went back to school to write the book I had a lot working against me as a 29-year-old man. It was really amazing for me to go from a second-grade writing level to an early college level in the three years I spent studying, especially considering my drug addiction and bipolar disorder.”
Travis Geier was born in Milwaukee but raised in Ixonia, Wisconsin. Travis is best known for his role in Wisconsin junk removal. He owned The Junk Truck, worked for Junk King, and finished his career with College Hunks Hauling Junk. He ran The Junk Truck for close to 10 years before deep diving into creative ventures. In entertainment, Travis has acted in some of the scariest haunted attractions in the Midwest. He also has played countless long-form improv comedy shows. He maintained a blog at travisvulture.com detailing his struggles with mental illness. Travis currently resides in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with his retired greyhound, Fiction.
The Junk Truck is a gritty junk haul tell-all about the hoarding situations, the crazy customers and employees, the dirty jobs, and the mental illness behind the small junk removal service you have never heard of. The book is a collection of essays that follow Travis’s story from dropping out of high school, to growing his business and becoming a respected entrepreneur, to having his mobile home raided by a S.W.A.T. team over a wellness check, to rebuilding his life and finding stability.
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