Wed Jan 20, 2016 1:03 pm

Would you tell a little about your past as enterepeneur before BTC?

I started in the corporate world at 16 and in my early to mid 20's the large corporation I was working for got bought out and Black Box took over operations. I then had plenty of time to mess around so I tried a ton of different things just for the fun of it. It was a great and hilarious time in my life. I was a waiter at an upscale Greek restaurant, I can't even type that without laughing. I was so horrible. I just didn't care and spent the entire time just stuffing my face with free food and making a mess. I was a landscaper for the ensuing summer which was a ton of fun. They called me the "mowing munk" , I didn't wear shoes, shaved my head and spent almost every day doing this in the nice summer heat and breeze of the ocean with the owners wife (cute little blond from the UK). I also was a mechanic, tried working at a Jewish deli, being a cook (I can catch mac n chz on fire), construction (horrible), unemployment (boring), and on and on.I always had offers coming in but didn't really feel like doing anything intense during that time. However after a bit I did start taking some of the contracts to do custom jobs that I felt were unique and could be challenging such as an airline integration system and a security system for a massive new casino using bio metrics. I then took a position with a small local company that did immigration, tax and other legal services.One day my father called me up with an idea for a communications company that he wanted me to do with him so after a bit of leg pulling I agreed and started spending my days a few hours north of my home at the time working with him. We started just contracting for a contractor that had a contract with DirecTv. This was the foot in the door of the communications industry that I needed since most of my contacts were in nuclear energy and IP technology.I then took over as a partner in the contracting company that we were contracting for. This increased my leverage and ability to get closer with the contacts I needed (golf is where business gets done). I kept on this path and eventually had my own company with contracts with DirecTv, Comcast, DishNetwork, Fordstar, Wild Blue and Verizon. Things were good and the money was just pouring in. Keep in mind that I openly admit that a lot of the money was dirty but that is how business at that level is done. So this was and is just like every other large corporate industry where you have to be liked in order to get the cash and the contracts.I was working my ass off trying to keep up with everything and eventually broke down and starting having sever anxiety and panic attacks. I handed the reigns over to my (at the time) wife who had been working along side me for a while (grooming). I then decided to do something that I had always wanted to do which was have my own hobby shop. So I opened a hobby shop called The Hobby Shop, pretty creative right. This was a lot of fun and while I didn't make money the shop did break even each month. I was ok with this since it was mainly for me. I built a big track for racing rc cars and 2 rock climbing walls. We also had a 3/4 Olympic size pool that was indoors next to the shop. Life was good again but I was struggling internally with anxiety and depression.My former wife and I always had problems. Which to be honest we never should have been married. You can't make a person faithful just by putting a ring on there finger (her). So I had the hobby shop and she had the communications company and things were fairly peaceful. Until the figurative shit started hitting the fan. It was then I found out that she had been, for lack of a nicer term, fucking around with all of our technicians. Were not just talking 1 or 2 were talking tens of guys aged 16 to 60. One woman was pregnant and caught my x with her husband in there own driveway, that made for an horrible Christmas party a few weeks later.So things were going south for me pretty fast. My health issues were increasing and I couldn't even bring myself to open the hobby shop every day. I shortly after closed down the shop and we moved to a smaller parcel in a neighboring town to try and start over. This was a pointless endeavor and my health was a mess. I started to realize that I knew and had always known what had to be done. So on New Years she took off for a day or 2 and then came home and lied to me about where and what she was doing. She stupidly had taken her phone with her with the gps on and took a picture of her and a guy together.This was the last straw as this was the second time in as many weeks that I had caught her with another guy. I told her to leave and she did. We tried to work it out but that failed miserably when I found out she was using our money to rent an apartment so she had a place to take men. So in the end I wound up on my sisters doorstep with a bag of clothes and a dog (literally). She took everything we had and sold it, I was so tired of it all I really didn't even care. Penneyless, homeless, jobless, and heartbroken.TO BE CONTINUED...