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[quote=Jump]Last week I talked with a guy with whom I worked 20 years ago.  He lives in India now.  Note to self: Before you call India make sure you have installed international roaming on your phone.  Otherwise that one phone call will cost $108.

Anyway, this guy was super entrepreneurial.  He was always coming up with ideas to make money.  He wrote a few online manuals for computer programs and then sold direct to Amazon and had all his friends give the books five stars.  Anyway, at some point I became involved with some of these pursuits.  One of the ideas was to buy up a bunch of domain names that were still available and then try to resell them to businesses wanting a killer website name.

So together with 2 friends, we bought up about 15 domain names and waited for the money to roll in.  Of course, all the REALLY good names like Books.com or Greateats.com were already taken.  We definitely bought names a few tiers down --  findaroute.com, germanonline.com, collegesanduniversities.com, and so forth.  Somehow in the thrill of the chase, we bought the domain name breastybeauties.com.  Now, the minute we bought that I was filled with regret.  I am in a line of work that simply does not correspond with a pornographic website name.  So for the year we held onto these site names (undeveloped of course) I was constantly in fear that one of my colleagues was going to find out I was a closet flesh peddler.  It was horrible.  At the end of the year, when it came time to renew our 'leases', we had only sold one stupid site -- collegesanduniversities.com.  I was just happy to dump them and get my name off whatever rolodex was charting porn site owners.

Anyway, I called him and I sort of thought this guy would be rolling in the dough.  It was really shocking though.  It turns out he gave up his high paying job and went back to India to take care of his aging parents, and he never really thought about money again.  He just got a regular old job to be near his parents and take care of them.  He lives a simple life.  He cares about simple things like having fresh air and trees around him, and helping others when he can.  So that goes to show how much a person can change in 20 years.

Hopefully, if someone looks back to some of the things I was doing 20 years ago, they will think I've changed too.

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