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Brief Autobiography
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10 October 2003
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| I was born in 1950, that makes
me 53 years old as of this writing. While that is not exactly young, with
modern medicine I should have a few more good years left in me.
I lived in a rural area near Vicksburg, Mississippi for my first 6 years. I still recall walking down a dirt farm road to a country store. There was a television in the store and the owner’s boys and I would watch Howdy Doody in the afternoons. My Dad got a job in a shipyard and my family moved to the New Orleans area in 1956. I went through the public school system there - nothing spectacular, just a young boy growing up in a blue collar neighborhood. Confronted with the draft, I joined the United States Army in 1970. I served as an enlisted man in Vietnam and in Washington DC. Those were difficult days. But in 1973 I met a wonderful brown-eyed girl. In 1974 I married her. We have been sharing life’s adventures ever since. Sometimes good things do happen. From 1975 to1978 I attended college in New Orleans and earned a degree in Management. Those were good times, I worked part-time as a house painter, and was old enough to appreciate some of the material presented in the classes. In 1980 I went to work for a stock brokerage firm and spent 14 years climbing the corporate ladder from computer programmer to MIS Director. This allowed me to apply all of the things I learned in college - and to learn the human consequences of them. Then the mergers began. I formed my own computer software and consulting firm in 1995 and have worked at it on and off ever since. Everyone should be in business for themselves - sales, contracts, collections, personnel, paperwork, and taxes - it gives you a whole new perspective. Presently I work for a communications company. Getting rich? Not hardly - I'm a working man. I spend most of what I make on family and I still cut my Mamma's grass. ### |
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