By the time Melinda is in the eighth grade, she has a part time job answering telephones, and typing for a doctor. In the 10th grade, she lands a job at Sea World in San Diego. "I was a Sea Maid until my second year in college," she says. "Ron, look at this," and shows me a Facebook picture of her swimming with Beluga, the whale. Melinda is in seventh heaven as she says, "We had 15 girls in our dressing room. We had such fun. We had some jingle in our jeans, too. One time we drove over to …