So why am I making this blog and going through the trouble of writing content, posting examples and documenting my progress when there is already so much code and tutorials on the net with some of the best available right here on DIC? The simple answer is to do my part to help the next guy just like me, or somewhat similar to me, or nothing like me at all but maybe that mystery person will like my style or method of presentation and get something useful from it.

At the age of 42 with 4 daughters, unemployed, dealing with some crazy adult ADHD, sitting in the worst depression since the great dustbowl and facing a future of NOTHING, I felt a lot of things including despair and fear. I'm not going to focus on the negative. What I am going to do is change, and I'm going to make a huge turn around, and I'm going to document the whole thing. I'm documenting this so someone else who needed the motivation to get out of that place of ultimate despair and desperation will see that it is possible to climb out of the hole and there is never a reason to give up.

This may sound silly to some people but that's OK. And maybe it isn't comfortable to be this blunt and share personal things but that's OK too. I don't have a lot of the silly kind of pride left though the haters will still hurt my feelings some. The chance I could help someone else get one day's worth of motivation out of my experiences far outweigh any emotional bruises I'll get along the way on this road trip.

Here is my first really silly thing to toss out for the day; I'm going to do all of this and make my turn around through programming. Yeah I'm going to change the world one Java program at a time! Well, I'll be starting with my world of course and I am already changing it one Java program at a time. Keep reading and you'll see how.

I'll be posting more tutorials and code examples like the last one on java console quirks. My next tutorial will be for the ultimate Java newbie who is self taught and is running in to naming convention issues in their IDE.

Side by side with the coding and tut's I'll flash back and give a little more background and how I got to this point and how you can avoid making a lot of the same mistakes I did.

I also welcome any comments or feedback either on my Java examples or the 'making a life change' categories. Are you or someone you know attempting to really master their first programming language, dealing with adult (or non-adult) ADHD, unemployed and not finding a job, or just interested in finding a decent source of motivation? If you share any of those or have some constructive feedback on any of my posts or are just passing through - post up a yo dawg. Share the love :rockon: