I was a complete loser waste for society at large. I was in and out of various institutions for "bad" kids from the time I was 14 until I was legally an adult. I spent my free time going to every Grateful Dead show I could manage to get my butt to. I spent ALOT of time traveling around the USA living in bizarre places eating interesting food and meeting exciting exotic people..."HEH"
It was a just a tiny bit of a rough life.
Around 1992 I was starting to get a bit tired of this I had been at it for 11 years or so at this point. I was living in a bus in Phoenix Arizona selling tye dyes on the street corners there as a street vendor making "decent" money... I had no bills so if I made 1000 dollars half of it went back into the biz and I pocketed the rest.
It was good life I was making nice money I had a kickass spot to park my bus.... running water electricity phone cable tv etc... under a really nice salt cedar right downtown really neat life... derelict heaven I was a PRO.:)
I had this friend of mine he was veteran that had these bizarre arterial sclerosis troubles he was in the hospital all the time. rode a litte electric cart around. VERY odd guy we got along somehow though... He came by the bus and the tye dye stands all the time and we would chat all day... He was a geek he knew how to build intel puters had a soldering iron etc... I had never been exposed to this at that point.
this was sometime in 1994 i think...
He gave me a bunch of old spare parts as I was fascinated with what he could do with his machine bookeeping printing sign making etc etc... all really cool for a little street vendor guy... We took the spare parts out and bought some ram and a 345 meg hard disk we built a 386 sx with 4 megs of ram a 345 meg hard disk and a weirdass oak xga vga card horror story. It managed to run windows 3.1 somehow... I was in freaking heaven I had a little mono monitor and i would putter away in my bus at night on this thing mucking with it.
then i got a modem! UTOH i was on irc with in 2 weeks and I was completely gone GAGA..... I
I basically stopped working on tye dyes and anything else and spent all my time learning about this new wonderful world. I got lost and let my biz dye my wife had a job and took care of us for sometime I was married to her for 9 years... I was learning amazing stuff.
We rented a small house accross from where the bus was parked as my puter wanted more space:)
My wife was working and I was spending all my time geeking out.
I got a job doign techincal support DOS windows stuff it was very stimulating.
My wife came home one day and told me she was in love with some guy at work and wanted to have his children.... I promptly and very thorally threw her out.
I went deep into work whisky and my puter.
sleeping nect to it with my whisky bottle and cigs. this was a really ugly part of my life.
I got a nexgen system and started attempting to load slak 1.XX on it I got the cd with a linux unleashed book i had bought.
I also met a girl on irc and we clicked.
She had an old old old IBM ps2 and could only get on via procomm or something...
We geeked out together learning shell and things it was fun. She came out to visit me and stayed.
We drank together and geeked out till all hours.
I set up a small lan at our new "slum" a Linux machine doing ip forwarding etc a winders machine for her and a linux box for my desktop... and went nutty for awhile..........
BOOM She is pregnant! my world changes completely
I get a haircut a better paying job doing desktop support.
this is 1997 I am christened the "unix guy" at my new job i get to do all the stuff everyone else just is basically afraid of.
It is vey fun and stimulating working with mechanical and electrical engineers as users,
we have a child and get married.
I change postitions fast in this company up up up i am interviewing for jobs as a unix admin now.
I have been on irc living in #linux on this bizarre remote irc network noone goes on.... Working on little projecty stuff with this guy...
He offers me a job as a unix admin in......... SWITZERLAND.
We florida to be with my wifes family and I am a cash register repairman for a few months out there.... Finally the job pans out and I get carted off to switzerland to work for a financial forcasting research firm in a ALL solaris environment 1998,
well and here I am I am still in switzerland and enjoying my job learning things everyday
I am a "senior" system administrator now at a small global company and life is generally amazing... I have another daughter and things just get more and more interesting.
When I was young like 14 and up....
I was a complete loser waste for society at large. I was in and out of various institutions for "bad" kids from the ti9me I was 14 ubtil I was legally an adult. I spent the protion of my free time going to evdry grateful dead show I could manage to get my butt to. I spent ALOT of time traveling around the USA living in bizarre places eating interesting food and meeting exciting exotic people..."HEH"
It was a just a tiny bit of a rough life.
Around 1992 I was starting to get a bit tired of this I had been at it for 11 years or so at this point.
I was living in a bus in Poenix Arizona selling tye dyes on the street corners there as a street vendor making "decent" money... I had no bills so if I made 100 dollars half of it went back into the biz and i pocketed the rest. It was good life I was making nice money I had a kickass spot to park my bus.... running water electricity phone cable tv etc... under a really nice salt cedar right downtown really neat life... derelict heaven I wasa PRO.:)
I had this friend opf mine he was veteran that had these bizarre arterial sclerosis troubles he was in the haspital all the time. rode a litte electric cart around. VERY odd guy we got along somehow though...
He came by the bus and the tye dye stands allthe time and we would chat all day...
He was a geek he knew how to buiold intel puters had a soldering iron etc...
I had never been exposed to this at that point this was sometime in 1994 i think...
He gave me a bunch of old spare parts as I was fascinated with what he could do with his machine bookeeping printing sign making etc etc... all really cool for a little street vendor guy...
We took the spare parts out and bought some ram and a 345 meg hard disk
we built a 386 sx with 4 megs of ram a 345 meg hard disk and a weirdass oak xga vga card horror story.
It managed to run windows 3.1 somehow...
I was in freaking heaven I had a little mono monitor and i would putter away in my bus at night on this thing mucking with it..
then i got a modem!
UTOH i was on irc withing 2 weeks and i was completely gone GAGA.....
I basically stopped working on tye dyes and anything else and spent all my time learning about this new wonderful world.
I got lost and let my biz dye my wife had a job and took care of us for sometime I was married to her for 9 years...
i was learning amazing stuff... rented a small house accross from where the bus was parked as my puter wanted more space:) linux machine doing ip forwarding etc a winders machine for her and a linux box for my desktop... and went nutty for awhile..........
BOOM
She is pregnant!
my wolrd changes completely i get a haircut a better paying job doing desktop support.....
this is 1997
I am christened the "unix guy" at my new job i get to do all the stuff everyone else just is basically afraid of.....
It is vey fun and stimulating working with mechanical and electrical engineers as users...
we have a child...
i change postitions fast in this company up up up
i am interviewing for jobs as a unix admin now...
I have been on irc living in #linux on this bizarre remote irc network noone goes on....
Working on little projecty stuff with this guy...
He offers me a job as a unix admin in......... SWITZERLAND.
this takes about 6 months to pan out.. we get married move to florida to be with my wifes family and I am a cash register repairman for a few months out there....
Finally the job pans out and I get carted off to switzerland to work for a financial forcating research firm in a ALL solaris environment
1998.......
well and here I am I am still in switzerland and enjoying my job immensly learning things everyday I am a "senior" system administrator now at a small global company and life is generally amazing... I have another daughter and thing sjust get more and more interesting...
Jeff Courtade
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Yes i have been drinking beer.
..."HEH"
... I had no bills so if I made 1000 dollars half of it went back into the biz and I pocketed the rest.
.... running water electricity phone cable tv etc... under a really nice salt cedar right downtown really neat life ... derelict heaven I was a PRO. :)
..... I
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When I was young like 14 and up....
I was a complete loser waste for society at large. I was in and out of various institutions for "bad" kids from the time I was 14 until I was legally an adult. I spent my free time going to every Grateful Dead show I could manage to get my butt to. I spent ALOT of time traveling around the USA living in bizarre places eating interesting food and meeting exciting exotic people
It was a just a tiny bit of a rough life.
Around 1992 I was starting to get a bit tired of this I had been at it for 11 years or so at this point. I was living in a bus in Phoenix Arizona selling tye dyes on the street corners there as a street vendor making "decent" money
It was good life I was making nice money I had a kickass spot to park my bus
I had this friend of mine he was veteran that had these bizarre arterial sclerosis troubles he was in the hospital all the time. rode a litte electric cart around. VERY odd guy we got along somehow though... He came by the bus and the tye dye stands all the time and we would chat all day... He was a geek he knew how to build intel puters had a soldering iron etc... I had never been exposed to this at that point.
this was sometime in 1994 i think...
He gave me a bunch of old spare parts as I was fascinated with what he could do with his machine bookeeping printing sign making etc etc... all really cool for a little street vendor guy... We took the spare parts out and bought some ram and a 345 meg hard disk we built a 386 sx with 4 megs of ram a 345 meg hard disk and a weirdass oak xga vga card horror story. It managed to run windows 3.1 somehow... I was in freaking heaven I had a little mono monitor and i would putter away in my bus at night on this thing mucking with it.
then i got a modem! UTOH i was on irc with in 2 weeks and I was completely gone GAGA
I basically stopped working on tye dyes and anything else and spent all my time learning about this new wonderful world. I got lost and let my biz dye my wife had a job and took care of us for sometime I was married to her for 9 years... I was learning amazing stuff.
We rented a small house accross from where the bus was parked as my puter wanted more space
My wife was working and I was spending all my time geeking out.
I got a job doign techincal support DOS windows stuff it was very stimulating.
My wife came home one day and told me she was in love with some guy at work and wanted to have his children.... I promptly and very thorally threw her out.
I went deep into work whisky and my puter.
sleeping nect to it with my whisky bottle and cigs. this was a really ugly part of my life.
I got a nexgen system and started attempting to load slak 1.XX on it I got the cd with a linux unleashed book i had bought.
I also met a girl on irc and we clicked.
She had an old old old IBM ps2 and could only get on via procomm or something...
We geeked out together learning shell and things it was fun. She came out to visit me and stayed.
We drank together and geeked out till all hours.
I set up a small lan at our new "slum" a Linux machine doing ip forwarding etc a winders machine for her and a linux box for my desktop... and went nutty for awhile
BOOM She is pregnant! my world changes completely
I get a haircut a better paying job doing desktop support.
this is 1997 I am christened the "unix guy" at my new job i get to do all the stuff everyone else just is basically afraid of.
It is vey fun and stimulating working with mechanical and electrical engineers as users,
we have a child and get married.
I change postitions fast in this company up up up i am interviewing for jobs as a unix admin now.
I have been on irc living in #linux on this bizarre remote irc network noone goes on.... Working on little projecty stuff with this guy...
He offers me a job as a unix admin in......... SWITZERLAND.
We florida to be with my wifes family and I am a cash register repairman for a few months out there.... Finally the job pans out and I get carted off to switzerland to work for a financial forcasting research firm in a ALL solaris environment 1998,
well and here I am I am still in switzerland and enjoying my job learning things everyday
I am a "senior" system administrator now at a small global company and life is generally amazing... I have another daughter and things just get more and more interesting.
BTW I turned 35 today.
Jeff Courtade
When I was young like 14 and up.... I was a complete loser waste for society at large. I was in and out of various institutions for "bad" kids from the ti9me I was 14 ubtil I was legally an adult. I spent the protion of my free time going to evdry grateful dead show I could manage to get my butt to. I spent ALOT of time traveling around the USA living in bizarre places eating interesting food and meeting exciting exotic people ..."HEH"
It was a just a tiny bit of a rough life.
Around 1992 I was starting to get a bit tired of this I had been at it for 11 years or so at this point.
I was living in a bus in Poenix Arizona selling tye dyes on the street corners there as a street vendor making "decent" money ... I had no bills so if I made 100 dollars half of it went back into the biz and i pocketed the rest. It was good life I was making nice money I had a kickass spot to park my bus .... running water electricity phone cable tv etc... under a really nice salt cedar right downtown really neat life ... derelict heaven I wasa PRO. :)
I had this friend opf mine he was veteran that had these bizarre arterial sclerosis troubles he was in the haspital all the time. rode a litte electric cart around. VERY odd guy we got along somehow though...
He came by the bus and the tye dye stands allthe time and we would chat all day...
He was a geek he knew how to buiold intel puters had a soldering iron etc...
I had never been exposed to this at that point this was sometime in 1994 i think...
He gave me a bunch of old spare parts as I was fascinated with what he could do with his machine bookeeping printing sign making etc etc... all really cool for a little street vendor guy...
We took the spare parts out and bought some ram and a 345 meg hard disk
we built a 386 sx with 4 megs of ram a 345 meg hard disk and a weirdass oak xga vga card horror story.
It managed to run windows 3.1 somehow...
I was in freaking heaven I had a little mono monitor and i would putter away in my bus at night on this thing mucking with it..
then i got a modem!
UTOH i was on irc withing 2 weeks and i was completely gone GAGA .....
I basically stopped working on tye dyes and anything else and spent all my time learning about this new wonderful world.
I got lost and let my biz dye my wife had a job and took care of us for sometime I was married to her for 9 years...
i was learning amazing stuff... rented a small house accross from where the bus was parked as my puter wanted more space :) linux machine doing ip forwarding etc a winders machine for her and a linux box for my desktop... and went nutty for awhile ..........
BOOM
She is pregnant!
my wolrd changes completely i get a haircut a better paying job doing desktop support.....
this is 1997
I am christened the "unix guy" at my new job i get to do all the stuff everyone else just is basically afraid of.....
It is vey fun and stimulating working with mechanical and electrical engineers as users...
we have a child...
i change postitions fast in this company up up up
i am interviewing for jobs as a unix admin now...
I have been on irc living in #linux on this bizarre remote irc network noone goes on....
Working on little projecty stuff with this guy...
He offers me a job as a unix admin in......... SWITZERLAND.
this takes about 6 months to pan out .. we get married move to florida to be with my wifes family and I am a cash register repairman for a few months out there....
Finally the job pans out and I get carted off to switzerland to work for a financial forcating research firm in a ALL solaris environment
1998.......
well and here I am I am still in switzerland and enjoying my job immensly learning things everyday I am a "senior" system administrator now at a small global company and life is generally amazing... I have another daughter and thing sjust get more and more interesting...
Jeff Courtade