Angelo Bovara has been an adventurer, analyst, author, bass player, bootlegger, caretaker, composer, cook, counselor, cowboy, drum teacher, electrician, explorer, food handler, gunsmith, hotel coordinator, interrogator, jig designer, kennel cleaner, luthier, mentor, musician, NSA budgeteer, oil owner, parachutist, pipe fitter, plumber, producer, protégé, question scientist, roughneck, staff officer, soldier, teacher, understudy, vehicle operator, weapons handler, xylophonist, yard hand, and zen master.