His story was published in Willamette Week in May 2004. He continues to write for Willamette Week. Jaquiss graduated from Dartmouth College in 1984; he spent eleven years as a Wall Street and Singapore-based crude oil trader, working for Cargill, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. After some concerns about business practices, he sought a career change, eventually enrolling at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and got his master’s degree in 1987. He began his journalism career in Portland in January 1998, working for Willamette Week.