Saturday, October 06, 2001

Thinker For Hire - Modern Prologue

Christ knows why I didn't think of it before, I've been blogging for well over a year now but I never thought to upload the stuff I'd written over the last years from before I owned a computer to 2001.

I started writing 'Thinker For Hire', my 'book' back in 1997. I had left University, done a bit of teaching and then had a spell doing consultancy work for unemployment statisticians! It was at that time I came up with the title Thinker For Hire, I was unemployed but still young and idealistic with the hope that somehow what life may hold for me would be something challenging and rewarding. In those months I went thru' the mindless sloth and for the first time voluntarily routined myself. During which was included my sitting down and writing stuff, whatever I felt like, just my take on the world. I wrote a fair few pages in those months. I have not read it since and I am quite interested to know how my style of writing may have changed since then as well as the nature and depth of my socio-political beliefs.

I will transcribe the first parts at another time, initially I am going to upload the stuff that has been done since I had a computer. Most of this is from 1999 onwards, I think. It is passionate but disjointed, fragments of thought formed from things that I'd heard or seen.

A little while after that I went quiet for a while with a brief attempt to get a diary going in 2002. It wasn't until January this year that I discovered blogging and since then my writing has developed a regularity even if not an amelioration in quality!

So this is 'Red Baron - The Early Years' - judge for yourselves (Written 6th May 2005)