JOHNCARMODY.COM Full Stack Development + Interactive Design + Teaching
Check me out on Bēhance

All About Me: Bio Basics

As an experiment in essential living, many years ago I started pulling the plug in order to live a pop culture hermitage & study American heritage.

So since 1992, that's meant dropping out of modern culture, which has meant shunning all of the following as anethema.

Many of these were things I loved.

no more:

TV
radio
newspapers
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
texting
followers
likes
subscribers
subscriptions
comments
reviews
shares
logos
celebrities
trends
fashions
Netflix
movies
sports
music
video games
credit cards
debt

Aptitude tests in high school reported I was best suited to be a farmer

Expelled my senior year from Gonzaga College High School in the District of Columbia, I was a high school drop-out for awhile and began living the life of a musician, playing shows and trying to get signed to a record contract.

I was accepted by the Catholic University of America despite having neither a high school diploma nor a GED or SAT scores.

While in college I was an intern in the United States House of Representatives and a waiter at numerous dive bars.

I made Dean's List and graduated with a BA in American History and a minor in Philosophy.

My professional career since college has gone in this approximate order:

managing a software store
database systems manager
network administration
network emergency tech
manager of information systems
server set-up and management
intranet tech
web master
web developer
web designer
university professor

What’s common to all these aptitudes and roles? Data management and design – the constant in all the information revolutions since Gutenberg.

This website demonstrates the value of studying the humanities. Remember - I was a history major: I taught myself how to do absolutely everything you see, read, hear, watch and otherwise consume on these pages.