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“Step Away from the Computer and Stand Against the Wall” – Posted: Apr 2, 07:08 AM – Filed under: History Personal
I was never the type of person who used my computer for malicious and illegal things but a man with a badge was telling me to “Step away from the computer and stand against the wall.” What have I done that would warrant this? I remember downloading a couple albums recently, but that’s really it.
No time to think; the man was walking towards me and I hadn’t yet stepped away from my computer. Again, he said, “Step away from the computer and stand against the wall.” Entirely uncertain what I might have done wrong, my mind went foggy and I stood up. At that moment I noticed he wasn’t alone, but his badge-wielding buddies weren’t following him as he came directly towards me. Instead, they went off to different areas of the office and were saying the same canned line to my coworkers, all twenty-five of them.
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How I Became a Front-end Developer – Posted: Mar 21, 01:55 PM – Filed under: Personal History
In the first quarter of 2004 I was employed as a truck driver for Moynihan Lumber in Beverly, Massachusetts. My job was to deliver new doors, windows, and lumber to contractors and homeowners in the process of remodeling or building a home in the Eastern Massachusetts area.
I would arrive at the warehouse at 7 a.m., fill up a 24′ box truck with the first round of orders, and be out on the road making deliveries by 9 a.m. Shortly after lunch I would come back to the warehouse with an empty truck and fill it up with a second round of orders. By about 5 p.m., that second round of orders would be delivered and I would go home.
Lets go back in time some more, all the way back to 1999.