Little by little I began saving a more and more money. I knew that $200 a month wasn't going to be enough to actually grow off of, so I began to develop a plot to grow passed the homeless stage I was in. Instead of drinking, or partying with money I didn't have, I applied myself towards bigger things. There was a homeless community that always hung out, and I grew to consider them good friends. They were located right outside the Long Beach library.
Every weekend that I had off, I spent my time in this very library to research different things I loved. I had a hunger to build my own business one day and have complete financial freedom. I looked upon some of these people living off the streets and saw contentment.
It was humbling indeed to see, however, I was done just scaling the bottom. I deserved to be rich and run among st the wealthy with a life others would see in envy. I remember the day I was finally able to buy myself a new pair of shoes for the first time, I began crying hysterically over the little victories I slowly began to see and take form.
It wasn't long till I knew what I had to do next. I knew that the way of the future was with computers and I needed to jump on that bandwagon for the security of my futures worth in the employment fields. With my weekend visits to the Long Beach library, I picked up HTML, CSS, Javascript, Jquery, PHP and MySQL books to learn computer program languages. I used the library computers and excelled in developing a basis that I still use today. I still went to work every day...
Rode the Bus where I could..
Went to the beach for a little uplifting every now and then..
And kept the cycle going without a thought in the world. I was saving money, had a job, new shoes, new friends and taking up new computer languages... Life was getting better everyday, and it seemed that every time that I began to get comfortable, something would happen to open my eyes in order to remind me that my growing periods were still far from over. Like the time I witnessed a man burn alive while on the road for my job.
Eye openers all around to remind me that life could end with one blink of an eye... Howe high was to high? Is there even a cap? Why? Always ask why, and never settle for less.... Grow higher.... That's why I abandoned ship, and used opportunities to go from a simple aerospace parts driver to literally building the very parts that ended up on NASA, SpaceX, Boeing shuttles...
Check out Part 4 Tomorrow :)