Apparently, someone of Facebook thinks I am a baseball fan, or that I am so desperate to learn to code that I would like to learn Pandas through either fantasy football or baseball.
C’mon, man, I tell the story of the only software product I was paid to write (over and over, like an old man with five or ten go-to stories to tell over and over), when I was in high school, I wrote a baseball stat manager in BASIC 2.0 for the Commodore 64:
My high school’s baseball team manager paid me $50 for something that could save and calculate the team’s stats.
Funny, in my various dilettante careers, I was most highly paid for poetry.
- Poetry: $100 for “Canny” in There Will Be War Volume X. I think I was supposed to get a share of royalties, too, but I no longer can reach out to my editor to wrench it from the publishing house as he did my flat payment.
- Software development: $50 for Baseball Stats Manager v1.0.
- Short fiction: $5 for “Reading Faces” in Show and Tell magazine.
You know, I guess I have been paid money for nonfiction, including pieces in Writers Journal and History magazines as well as perhaps some cash from Artisan Journal back in the day.
Blogging and self-publishing, though? Money sinks.
