So. I’m
sitting in a rather smoky bar in Amsterdam. I’m waiting for Poppy who’s meeting
me. It seems a suitable moment to write about myself. It all started with my
job at *****. That shaped me a lot I reckon. Oh and LSE probably affected me
just a bit too, I would imagine. Before I left I was working many many hours. I
was a nu-media consultant, which I’m becoming less certain what that was now
that I’ve left. Most of my time was spent networking, reading articles written
by other people like me, and spreading more ideas that were really just
here-say. People seemed to believe me because I was confident, I had an
educated voice and supposedly I was an expert.
It was a
career that was very easy to get consumed by. I was surrounded by people who
knew how big the internet was going to be, how communication would be
revolutionized in a period of a few years. And I would have ideas. Lots of
them. I’d sit in pubs just throwing out plans like I was reading lines from a
plot.
So one day
I come home with an idea which hits me mid-afternoon. Why not just con people ?
Why be clever for a corporation, when you could just get fun from personal
deviousness. Later that night we’re in the pub. Me and Jack. Later there’s
Poppy and Jasmine too. With my normal gusto, I throw the idea at Jack who loves
it with his normal confidence boosting verve.
Poppy and
Jasmine took a bit more convincing, but not much more. I don’t know where this
is going, but also I don’t really care. And for me that is the beauty.
Oh and I should mention the mischief ness element. All of this sounds
like a hell of ball. 2 boys and 2 girls travel the world with no
responsibilities, broad minds and no reason for their day-to-day lives except
to have a good time.