What was I thinking?CactusZack tells us: "I stopped dating a girl AFTER she got breast implants. For what reason I do not know, and I still kick myself for this." Tell us about inexplicable decisions that still haunt you.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 23 Sep 2010, 11:58)
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financial f*** upBack in 1994 when the internet was still in its infancy, I had just been made redundant from my now privatised government department.
So I decided to do some contract work for a while till I could find another job, met some really good guys who were in the same position as me and we got chatting about business opportunities.
These guys were going to set themselves up as an ISP provider, they proposed that if I had £10,000.00 to hand I could become a full partner in the business I said I'd have a think about it.
End result I said no "too risky" they said fine, in 2002 they were bought out by a Canadian coms company and each of the founding partners walked away with £10,000,000.00 and would never have to work again.
What the fuck was going through my head!!!!!
(, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 8:58, 2 replies)
I bet they're not happy like you though.
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enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 9:19,
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You might as well sayI was going to buy a lottery ticket, but then decided it wasn't worth it. Some other guy did though and won £3M. What was I thinking?
You judged it to be too risky to invest. That judgement was probably correct: most businesses like that do fail. The fact that this particular business succeeded does not mean that the risk was not there.
It just means that you are too risk-averse to ever be successful!
(, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 9:34, closed)
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