Success? Dream Being a Programmer and Being a Writer!

By Odell Sneeden Hathaway, III.

Main Homepage: Stories by Odell: Art Work by Odell Favorite Links Comments

Success? Dream Being a Programmer and Being a Writer! Copywrite ©, 2008 By Odell Sneeden Hathaway, III Being a Programmer I do not know if I should even classify this as a dream or an accomplishment or something else. When I graduated from Jr. High I barely knew what a computer was. This was 1977 The PC was still a few years away. But that summer my parents got the 1st computer they ever owned for their company. It was an IBM 5100 and I am certain my cell phone to day is much more powerful then it was. I quickly found that I could program it and make it do what I wanted. I also found that I was very good at finding and fixing bugs. In fact one night my father woke me up and asked for my help. The program he was running had a problem and I fixed it. The next morning my father told me that he paid his programmer $50.00 an hour to do what I had done the night before and since I was not as experienced as the other programmer he would pay me $25.00 an hour. Not bad for a sophomore in high school even today. Well that was it. While I was in college I got my 1st job as a programmer and data entry person and I have been doing it ever since. I wish I could tell you what pulled me toward this but I can not. I have never felt like I was in control of this career of mine. It just sort of happened. Being a Writer My Dreams of being a writer did not start until after high school. In fact I think it started with that mystical experience in the dark room. I got two things from it. One was the faith that I would someday be with find the little Girl I loved and the other was the ideas for “The end of the beginning and the start of eternity”. My first book (never published) Even then I thought I would write this one book publish it under an assumed name and move on. It was not till later when my Muse started coming more often that I started thinking that something I had to say might be worth saying. My friend Weaver encouraged this belief with out telling me he would publish things I had written in our parish news letter. I found that there was nothing as fulfilling as answering the call of my muse and writing what she wanted me to. Even when Weaver introduce me to The Idiot and I saw that Dostoyevsky had done a much better job at presenting the idea’s that I tried to present in “The end of the beginning and the start of eternity” then I had ever done. I was not disappointed but thrilled to see what it could have been. May be someday when I am a much better writer I might try again. When I found the net and was able to publish my self I loved the idea and have used it well. People from all over the world have written to thank me for things that I have written. The problem with this dream is that I have not taken it far enough nor do I know how to proceed. My little Net Kingdom is wonderful and I have had people from all over the world read my writing. But I still dream of getting published in the real world and I do not know how to do that. So I keep telling my self that it is the writing that matters and publishing is not my problem. If you are a writer then write. * The ability to find something in side and make contact with it. * The pride of creation. Success? Lessons: What do my Desires / Dreams teach me?

Thank you for Surfing by. If you would like to write to me press = osh@teleport.com

Even on the NET I can't spell Tree, updated 06/29/08.