I taught myself computer basics and software while I was still on active duty. Eventually, I approached Jenkins Consulting Service about working part-time.
Clyde and Lindsay-Anne turned me down. They didn’t want the job competing with my Navy responsibilities. But they offered me full-time employment after retirement.
I retired from the Navy on Friday, July 13, 1990. Three days later, on Monday, July 16, 1990, I started working at Jenkins Consulting Service as a computer consultant and instructor.
Learning it. Teaching it. Making it work.
I consulted for companies around Honolulu, wrote software courses, and taught at Kapiolani and Honolulu Community Colleges. I also did network programming consulting for ʻŌlelo Community Public Television.
After approximately five years, Clyde closed Jenkins. He handed me a disk containing his clients.
“You know what to do with this.”
Creative Computing Concepts, Inc.
In December 1994, I started Creative Computing Concepts, Inc. That led to approximately another five years of computer consulting and training in Hawaii.
Eventually, I returned to Virginia. The next job would put those teaching and people skills to work in a different setting: elections.