I grew up as a military brat living all over the US and SE Asia. After high school I went to Berklee College of Music in Boston. Upon graduating from college I did what most musicians did. I pumped gas, washed dishes, repaired ATM’s, ran a printing press and played in bands on the side until my early thirties.
Around this time I didn’t have a car and was close to losing my apartment. A good friend was a bike messenger and said there was an opening so one morning in the dead of winter with a steady rain falling down I put on most all the clothes I could gather, hopped on my bike and began my career as a bike messenger.
It was miserable but I loved it.
About a year later I started a bike messenger service with a couple of friends. We did pretty good. I learned a lot about the fundamentals of how to start and run a business. Living on a bike was a life style. You did groceries, laundry and bar hopping all on a bike. This was likely the inspiration for my later interest in minimalism.
After the bike messenger gig I headed overseas looking for business opportunities in the Philippines.
There I saw a large data entry business and figured this was something I could do. Or at least something I could wrap my mind around.
I holed up in a hotel and taught myself how to program. I spent the next few months writing the code that would be the basis of my operations for the next twenty years.
I don’t write code anymore. These days I am more interested in exploring the desert and chasing storms.
Nowadays I drift aimlessly from one part of the country to another.
Feel free to follow along on my YouTube channel Fat Desert