I suppose I should introduce myself properly.
My name is John Paul Chambers. I was born in November 1968 in Durban, South Africa to a mother and father from Liverpool. In 1972 because of the political system at the time in South Africa my parent decided to leave for pastures new. My father was a planner in the Printing trade and had managed to get a job in Mexico City. However for reasons unknown we couldn’t travel directly to Mexico and had to return to England first. Once back in Liverpool my mother put her foot down and so we stayed, and I spend the next 16 years growing up in Liverpool. Now Liverpool in the 70’s and 80’s was not the most affluent part of the country, in fact during the 80’s it was almost abandoned by the Tory government lead by Mrs Thatcher. But this blog isn’t going to be the place for my social and political views.
I left school at 16 with 5 ‘O’ levels. After a year at Liverpool Central College studying 3 ‘A’ levels I decided to leave and start a YTS job at Benross Trading Ltd on Rose Lane, Mossley Hill. For the first 10 years of my working life I was involved in general admin, payroll and pension administration. I was using computers but never in an IT role as such. Then in 1997 whilst working in the payroll department of Arcadia Group Ltd, I spotted an internal vacancy for a trainee programmer in the systems department.
So at the age of 28 I became a trainee RPG programmer. And before you ask RPG didn’t stand for Role Playing Game but rather this. I didn’t care at least I was working as a programmer and it gave me many opertunities to learn. After a couple of years a few of us decided to go and study java at the local university 2 nights a week.
So in 1999 my life as a java delevoper began.
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