In my early twenties I set up a fishing trip and boat hire business in Coromandel. I would do up the old clinkers I found in the mangroves, hire them out and take people fishing. I did it for three years and loved it. There’s no real money in boats until you’re into seven figure […]

I learnt a big lesson in my first year as a salesman for a large office equipment company. The environment was a fairly aggressive one (commission only sales seems to do that to a business). It was pretty much a dog-eat-dog atmosphere with everyone egging everyone else to meet sales targets, crunch a deal and […]