Your other life.
Posted 12-23-2012 at 04:39 PM by TATE
I blundered into my industry 38 years ago - oddly enough hustling pool.
I'm in the tour, travel and meeting management -business. While in college, a fellow student wanted me to hustle his dad at snooker (he despised his father). The father had a custom snooker table and liked to drink and gamble. I liked to make monmey. He was also the President of a large international tour company in Los Angeles at the time. Over several years of playing and gambling, we became friends and he gave me a job.
Since then I have participated in and oversaw three company buyouts and have owned my own small business corp for for almost 30 years now. I have had many roles in the industry and a great many adventures. Needless to say I've traveled a great deal.
My proudest achievement is my wife and two daughters - who are each far more accomplished in lide trhan I could ever hope to be. One daughter is a credentialed teacher here in Los Angeles who just completing her Master's degree, the other is a high school student, a gifted young lady who just a few weeks ago was awarded a full university academic Presidential scholarship in an honors program in science and technology.
Pool gives me an escape from the pressures of work. The minute I walk through the doors of the pool room, I am a pool player and nothing else.
I like that a lot.
I'm in the tour, travel and meeting management -business. While in college, a fellow student wanted me to hustle his dad at snooker (he despised his father). The father had a custom snooker table and liked to drink and gamble. I liked to make monmey. He was also the President of a large international tour company in Los Angeles at the time. Over several years of playing and gambling, we became friends and he gave me a job.
Since then I have participated in and oversaw three company buyouts and have owned my own small business corp for for almost 30 years now. I have had many roles in the industry and a great many adventures. Needless to say I've traveled a great deal.
My proudest achievement is my wife and two daughters - who are each far more accomplished in lide trhan I could ever hope to be. One daughter is a credentialed teacher here in Los Angeles who just completing her Master's degree, the other is a high school student, a gifted young lady who just a few weeks ago was awarded a full university academic Presidential scholarship in an honors program in science and technology.
Pool gives me an escape from the pressures of work. The minute I walk through the doors of the pool room, I am a pool player and nothing else.
I like that a lot.
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