Failed Career #2: Professional Gambler

So much weird shit has happened to me over the last eight years or so that I had completely forgotten about one little piece of my past life until I remembered it after posting my bio from a decade ago.
I had completely forgotten my short-lived and totally unsuccessful career as a professional gambler – mainly [...]

Marketing Is Bollocks – How to Blag a Job in Marketing (Part Two)

This is, sadly, the last part of my half-arsed attempt at writing my first book – the second part of how to get ino the field of marketing.
I know, it’s pretty pathetic that I gave up after less than 5000 words.  But here it is anyway …
The route I used was by pretending that I [...]

Marketing Is Bollocks – How to Blag a Job in Marketing (Part One)

Finally you get to read a bit of the content from my half-arsed attempt at writing my first book, which didn’t even get as far as halfway through the first chapter before I completely lost interest in it.  Hopefully my boredom threshhold has grown a little wider since then.
So here is the first half of [...]

“So What Is It You Actually Do?”

I hate it when people ask that question, or when I’m filling in some form and need to fill in the field labelled “Profession”.
Because I don’t really have one.  I usually just fill it in as “Company Director” or “Entrepreneur”.  I have heard some people like me call themselves “Serial Entrepreneurs”.  That does describe me [...]