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Post by phillywrestler on Jul 11, 2006 11:47:39 GMT -5
Does anyone have an old childhood friend or family member who became wealthy or extremely successful? Did they change much? Do they treat you differently?
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Post by Spider on Jul 11, 2006 12:05:39 GMT -5
Last October, I went to my 40th high school reunion and met the guy who got me started in wrestling. I hadn't seen him since high school and even at the reunion I couldn't tell how he was doing. Back in high school, I used to help him with his school work because he had street smarts, but wasn't that great at academics. When I went to visit him a few months ago at his home on Cape Cod, I didn't know what to expect. It turns out that he is a very successful land developer and is worth about six million dollars. I couldn't be happier for him because he's such a nice guy and a hard worker who earned everything he has. His personality hasn't changed a bit and we just started back where we left off forty years ago.
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Post by Big on Jul 11, 2006 12:10:44 GMT -5
Yeah spider, please tell us how your treatment of old friends has changed as a result of your financial dental success!
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Post by Spider on Jul 11, 2006 12:14:22 GMT -5
Yeah spider, please tell us how your treatment of old friends has changed as a result of your financial dental success! I'll be happy to tell you, just call my secretary for an appointment. |
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Post by furches on Jul 11, 2006 12:49:47 GMT -5
I have a couple of friends that did well. Of course they were from well to do families before. One works as an attorney for Al Gore, and another for CBS Television. I have another good friend in a high office at Disney.
I don't think it really changed anything, after high school no one really keeps in touch anyway.
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Post by RYou on Jul 11, 2006 13:47:23 GMT -5
20 years ago I met an old buddy at a HS reunion. He was a plumber, just out on his own and struggling.
10 Years ago we met again at another reunion, he had given up his plunge into plumbing and was now selling kitchens and baths as a Home Depot designer.
Saw him and his new wife last year at the 30th reunion - HE'S FREAKIN' RETIRED !
He was single when he started at the Depot about 18 years ago, plowed everything he could afford into HD stock starting back when they IPO'd. Has sold since his stock and invested in funds, 'cept for the Google IPO he bought on the ground floor - that trebled in 2 years.
And I sit here plunking on a PC at work slugging it out with debt up the wazoo.
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Post by contini on Jul 11, 2006 20:25:18 GMT -5
10 years ago, I was sharing an office with a guy named Ray, working at RSA Laboratories. Ray made a shock announcement one day that he is leaving the company and going to a new startup company named "Google." Nobody knew what Google was at that time, but he showed us the search engine which was on Stanford University website at the time. I told him that he was making a big mistake and wasting his talent as a researcher. He told me that he just wanted to be an engineer. So he left RSA and joined Google, starting as their 4th employee.
About two years later, he tried to get me to join. He invited me over, showed me around, introduced me to Brim and Page (the founders). It was a very impressive environment there, as you may have heard. But by this time, Google was already starting to be known. They had a few hundred employees. I said to myself, why would I join this company? They have already made it big. there is nothing left for me to contribute. So I didn't pursue it -- didn't even send a resume to them.
Now, Ray is a multi-millionaire with a mansion in the Lake Tahoe area. Brim and Page are billionaires, on the list of the top 400 most wealthy people in the world (not sure what number they are). And me? I'm a poor, starving researcher who missed a real opportunity to make it big. But I console myself by knowing that I never would have discovered Australia had I went to Google, and I would have become materialistic and not learned to really enjoy living as I think I am doing now. Damn, maybe it isn't too late to try to go to Google! ;-)
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Post by thebestaround on Jul 11, 2006 20:54:01 GMT -5
Spider you are a dentist?
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Post by Spider on Jul 11, 2006 20:58:31 GMT -5
Guilty!
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Post by thebestaround on Jul 11, 2006 21:07:25 GMT -5
Lol cool. Hey i got a root canal about a year ago and havent capped it yet. It just has the hard stuff in it still. Is that bad? I know it is, but how bad?
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Post by phillywrestler on Jul 11, 2006 21:08:20 GMT -5
10 years ago, I was sharing an office with a guy named Ray, working at RSA Laboratories. Ray made a shock announcement one day that he is leaving the company and going to a new startup company named "Google." Nobody knew what Google was at that time, but he showed us the search engine which was on Stanford University website at the time. I told him that he was making a big mistake and wasting his talent as a researcher. He told me that he just wanted to be an engineer. So he left RSA and joined Google, starting as their 4th employee. About two years later, he tried to get me to join. He invited me over, showed me around, introduced me to Brim and Page (the founders). It was a very impressive environment there, as you may have heard. But by this time, Google was already starting to be known. They had a few hundred employees. I said to myself, why would I join this company? They have already made it big. there is nothing left for me to contribute. So I didn't pursue it -- didn't even send a resume to them. Now, Ray is a multi-millionaire with a mansion in the Lake Tahoe area. Brim and Page are billionaires, on the list of the top 400 most wealthy people in the world (not sure what number they are). And me? I'm a poor, starving researcher who missed a real opportunity to make it big. But I console myself by knowing that I never would have discovered Australia had I went to Google, and I would have become materialistic and not learned to really enjoy living as I think I am doing now. Damn, maybe it isn't too late to try to go to Google! ;-) Great Story!! |
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Post by Spider on Jul 11, 2006 21:27:56 GMT -5
Lol cool. Hey i got a root canal about a year ago and havent capped it yet. It just has the hard stuff in it still. Is that bad? I know it is, but how bad? Not too bad if the temporary filling is still intact, but if it has broken down and decay gets in, that's bad; and you can't tell - only a dentist can. Get it capped ASAP or you may lose the tooth. |
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Post by Big on Jul 11, 2006 21:38:51 GMT -5
Get it capped ASAP or you may lose the tooth.
That's what they all say...........j/k
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