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    Desperate Try
    Desperate Try
    Desperate Try
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    Desperate Try

    By R. Richard

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    I can see only one way that I might survive financially and that’s a desperate try. I pull up the last week’s stock market trading data into my home computer and run the data through an automatic trading program that I have developed on my home computer. As with the past several weeks, I would have made about a third more than my Lozenge Corporation salary. I would also have generated some $700 in commissions, for my broker. I update certain parameters in my automatic trading program, based on the latest week’s trading data. Come Monday, I go live with my automatic trading program, for better or for worse.
    Monday finds me reading the financial reports and adjusting certain parameters, in my automatic trading program. By the end of the trading day, I have made about 40% more than my former Lozenge Corporation salary. I also feel as if I have just run the Olympic 1,500 meter race. I go to the gym, to work out and to ease my tensions.
    As I try to do my workout, one of my former Lozenge Corporation workmates gets in my way and sneers, “Too bad that they don’t pay for work outs, unemployed boy.”
    I go and talk with Mike. Mike runs the gym and he’s very large, very muscular and he takes no crap at all.
    Mike has a little talk with insult boy.
    Insult boy leaves and I finish my work out.
    I thank Mike and he just laughs and says, “You pay your dues, you work out here, without wimp boys insulting you.” (Mike’s idea of a wimp boy is any male who weighs less than maybe 250 very muscular pounds.)
    I finish my work out, go home, eat supper and then collapse into bed. It has been a profitable, but stressful day.
    Tuesday, the stock market is down, but my automatic trading program is up, even better than Monday. (My automatic trading program also trades on the short side, betting that certain stocks can be sold, will go down and can then be bought back more cheaply.)
    Wednesday, the stock market is up. By the end of the trading day, my automatic trading program is also up, if a bit less than Monday.
    I go to the gym, to work out and to ease my tensions. After my workout, I shower up and then hit the grocery store. There aren’t a lot of people in the store and I’m getting my shopping done. Suddenly Tanya, from The Lozenge Corporation, is in my face and she wants to know, “How is the unpaid vacation going?”
    I tell the lady, “I find things to keep me busy.”
    Tanya sneers “Busy is good, paid is better.”
    I venture, “I seem to be having a bit of trouble finding someone who wants to pay me.”
    Tanya sneers, “You won’t find work again, until Ricky decides that you should get paid.” With that, Tanya is off, down the frozen food aisle.
    I realize that I have been an idiot.
    Thursday, the stock market is up again, but my automatic trading program is up, even more, and a nice bit more than Monday.
    At the end of the trading day, I hot foot it down to my stock broker. I tell Danny, “I’m generating quite a bit of commission money for your company. Why is it that your computer department won’t hire me?”
    Danny looks surprised and he calls someone on the telephone and has a fairly long conversation. He then looks at me and says, “Apparently, you really angered management, over at the The Lozenge Corporation.”
    I tell Danny, “I showed up for work on time, neatly dressed. I did my assigned work, to the best of my ability and gave management no lip. As a reward, they fired me.”
    Danny muses, “The last few days, you have done a lot of very profitable trading.”
    I tell Danny, “That should continue and even get better. I don’t want anyone to know how I’m doing.”
    Danny says, “Confidentiality is our business.”
    I tel Danny, “That’s how you keep my business.”
    I then go to the gym, to work out and to ease my tensions. No one interferes with my work out, but one of the Lozenge Corporation boys sneers, “Go hard, unemployed boy.”
    Friday, the stock market is pretty much level, but my aut

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherR. Richard
    Release dateJun 28, 2017
    ISBN9781370577637
    Desperate Try
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    R. Richard

    I'm the co-author, with Sunset Thomas, of Anatomy of An Adult Film.I have 48 novels and over 299 short stories currently published.I spent my early years in the part of Los Angeles known as the South Central. I was known as Whi' Boy, which was sufficient to identify me in that place. I'm a skilled Kung Fu player, using a system that I learned from a Korean I knew only as 'Pak.' It would be easier to tell you the places that Pak wasn't wanted by the police, rather than the places where he was wanted by the police. Pak's Kung Fu system, augmented by some bits and pieces from some Chinese practitioners is quick and effective, or I wouldn't be alive today.My early education was mostly obtained by stealing books from the public library (I always returned them and the Librarian even began to provide me with reading lists.) I did go to high schools, but I never really learned anything there. I eventually graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles, UCLA, with a degree in mathematics.I work as a Systems Analyst and also make a part of my living as a professional gambler (legal in Nevada.) I write science fiction and erotica. My published novels are:Anatomy of An Adult Film (With Sunset Thomas)1. Second Chance: God Killer2. Second Chance: Sky Pirate3. Second Chance: Scroll Seeker4. Second Chance: King of The Islands5. Second Chance: King of Zaya6. Second Chance: Duke of Averon7. Second Chance: King of Golomon8. Second Chance: King Of The Sky9. Second Chance: Warlord of Ifrequeh10. Second Chance: King of Ariby11. Second Chance: King of Mesodania12. Second Chance: King of Avuls13. Second Chance: King of Kemet14. Second Chance: King of Zorran15. Second Chance: King of Two Worlds16. Second Chance: King of Averon17. Second Chance: King's Duties18. Second Chance: King of The New WorldAdventurer: Simulation ProblemAdventurer: Pannar ProblemA Programmer's GambitAmateur StripperBeach MurdersBondage HouseCorporate Sex SlavesFriday NightGo Naked In The SoftwareGrasshopper WinterInvoluntary NudeLayoffNot A HeroPirates of The KeysSummer of SexThe LakeThe Last Moon DanceThe Nude Adventures of Plain JaneThe Secret Life of Wanda WilsonTails of the Pussycat LoungeTo Keep A JobTopless RestaurantToy WhoresVix: The MarineWayward BoyShort Stories:A Christmas Visit

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      Desperate Try - R. Richard

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      Desperate Try

      By R. Richard © 2017

      I’m working, as a computer programmer, at The Lozenge Corporation. Things are not going well. I have just presented a demo program to a prospective customer. I think that my demo was the best of the three demos, presented to the customer. However, the customer decided to go with another company, for the contract that my company was competing for. I was told, by a customer representative, that the prices quoted by my company were too high.

      It’s Friday, early afternoon and I’m called into the Department Manager’s office.

      Ricky glares at me. James Hall, your demo didn’t win us a contract. I’m gonna have to lay you off.

      (Ricky is what we call in the programmer trade an ass hole.) I don’t reply to Ricky’s layoff message, except to say, I did my best. (Bringing up something like the pricing issue will only harm me.)

      Ricky glares at me. Your best isn’t good enough. You are gone. (As if by magic, black magic, a personnel lady appears and she leads me off to the amputation of my pay check.)

      I sign the required forms and I then exit, with my final pay check in my hand. I drive to my bank and deposit my last Lozenge Corporation pay check. I draw out a little cash, to finance my daily expenses. I then drive home.

      I review my situation. I’m a much better than average computer programmer. I’m a much worse than average politician. I have been quietly looking for another job for the past several

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