Jesse was born in the United States and raised in Canada. Jesse drifted through various occupations. Farm worker, mill worker, landscaper, door to door sales, gravedigger, masseur, dice dealer, process server, day labor, phone room, baker, janitor, security guard, and many other mostly dead end jobs. Jesse spent over nine years in Las Vegas working for the casinos. 
From the age of 13 until the age of 48 was a 35 year odyssey of drug and alcohol use, abuse, and addiction. Jesse has been clean and sober for over eleven years now.
Jesse lives in New Westminster, BC.