Ricky is a waiter for a catering company that he particularly hates. Without the job, he has no ride and won't be able to pay for himself and his dog. He'd rather just have ends meet and be miserable than be homesless.
Ricky is very polite and kind to strangers, putting on a good smile to be the perfect stranger. He is generally a kind and caring person but around friends he jokes around and makes an ass of himself a lot. Not on purpose, of course, but it happens often. When doesn't the bad stuff happen to the good guys?
Ricky grew up relatively poor. He wasn't dirt poor and lived on the streets but his parents had to work from two to three jobs every day just to get ends meet. Though he grew up with hard working parents, he got all the love he could ask for from them. He always had a good life, being a happy and naive child, he grew up happy and naive. When he was older he struggled a bit with the real world but caught up quick, being a fast learner.