What is your biggest accomplishment?

[Jurollo]

There are some TREMENDOUSLY talented people that frequent these forums and I am sure some of you have down some truly unbelievable things in your life. What is something you are extremely proud of accomplishing? I am NOT looking for poker accomplishments so saying you won $X.XX in ABC tournament won't suffice.

As a 23 yr old I don't have a TON of life experience to delve into here, hence, my biggest personal accomplishment would be my completion of my Bachelor's Degree in Urban Studies.

[whiskeytown]

it would probably involve songs I wrote/sang getting on the radio in local/limited airplay. It is something I've striven my whole life for and rarely get.

Although there was one night where a guy from a pirate radio station came to a gig and put the whole kitten kaboodle on there - that really kicked ass - to be on illegal pirate radio, but I'm thinking I'd rather have regular rotation.

actually, I take no greater pride then in being a songwriter, even a marginalized and unsuccessful one /images/graemlins/smile.gif - because at least TWO songs made it in regular playlists - the fact SOMEONE thought it was good enough to play over the air is cool, and in today's conglomerate market, rarer then hell.

The first time thought was a Christian music playlist - 2nd time was the liberal progressive radio station - LOL.

linky to the most recent song is here (http://www.balletschooltroublemakers.com/4_brigid.mp3)

RB

[lippy]

Mine are lame and relate to academia, so they're worthless;
- 2 4.0 semesters
- 4/6 semesters on Dean's List

Very lame, going to get dominated hardcore.

[cking]

Well not really an accomplishment per se, but biggest/craziest thing to happen to me in my 21yrs is when i was 15 i think, my hotel was taken over by chechen terrorist (Swiss Hotel, Istanbul). Was about 30 of em, got locked in a big room had guns pointed at us. Good times

[Golden_Rhino]

My biggest accomplishment thus far is finding happiness. I was miserable through my twenties, and when I hit my thirties I told 'the man' to stick it, and went back to school. I am more broke now than I have ever been, but I don't dread waking up every day.

[cobrakai111]

Not the greatest either but being able to purchase a brand new studio apartment in Boston while making 12k a year working for Americorps VISTA. Thank you low income housing programs. I also came second in the state in the Geography Bee when I was 10 years old..

[lippy]

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Well not really an accomplishment per se, but biggest/craziest thing to happen to me in my 21yrs is when i was 15 i think, my hotel was taken over by chechen terrorist (Swiss Hotel, Istanbul). Was about 30 of em, got locked in a big room had guns pointed at us. Good times

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If anything has ever warranted a trip report, this is it.

[NicksDad1970]

I think my biggest is breaking the chain of alcohol abuse in my family.

I quit drinking 6 years ago and hopefully it won't be a part of my kids life.

[Golden_Rhino]

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I think my biggest is breaking the chain of alcohol abuse in my family.

I quit drinking 6 years ago and hopefully it won't be a part of my kids life.

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Good for you pal. Good luck with that. If your kids don't see you drink, I think you have a good chance of keeping them away from the bottle. Congratulations.

[Wondercall]

I think all of mine have to do with soccer: Playing on the same club team for 10 years, Won prestigious tournaments, scouted by D1, D2, D3, NAIA, All-State HS, yada yada.

Maybe getting over depression without the use of medication too.

[Los Feliz Slim]

Moved to LA in 1996, got job in talent agency mailroom
Promoted to Talent Agent in 1997
Started new agency in 1999 with two partners
By the end of 1999/beginning of 2000 we were arguably the top agency for our specialty

So, mailroom boy to partner in a successful talent agency in under four years.

If that's my biggest accomplishment 20 years from now I'm going to be pretty upset. If my daughter turns out to be a happy and good person that will probably win.

[lippy]

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Moved to LA in 1996, got job in talent agency mailroom
Promoted to Talent Agent in 1997
Started new agency in 1999 with two partners
By the end of 1999/beginning of 2000 we were arguably the top agency for our specialty

So, mailroom boy to partner in a successful talent agency in under four years.

If that's my biggest accomplishment 20 years from now I'm going to be pretty upset. If my daughter turns out to be a happy and good person that will probably win.

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Hire me once I get my JD? Only 4.5 years away!

[djames]

- Attain my FCAS without failing an exam.
- Married to my best friend.
- Have my son and one child on the way.

[Borodog]

Marrying way, way, way up.

After that, Ph.D.

[IronUnkind]

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Started new agency in 1999 with two partners

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LFS:

Knew you were in the industry, but didn't realize you had your own agency. What's your specialty?

[bowens]

Having former students come back after graduation and tell me that I had a major impact on their life. Just an awesome, awesome feeling.
Also, directing each band concert is a great accoplishment to me. Getting 80+ high school students to do something together and do it well, is certainaly an accomplishment. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[IronUnkind]

HS valedictorian. All down hill from there. /images/graemlins/wink.gif

[jkkkk]

Off the top of my head,

- DJ'ed on the same line up as lisa lashes and other DJ's who I have a great deal of respect for.

- Degree in Business and Management specialising in HR

- Came 2nd in a big pool tournament when I was 16, the 2nd youngest guy there must of been 20, I was very good for my age. Sort of regret not sticking with it.

[Los Feliz Slim]

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Started new agency in 1999 with two partners

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LFS:

Knew you were in the industry, but didn't realize you had your own agency. What's your specialty?

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When we opened, on-camera commercials. We now also have youth, theatrical, and hosting/broadcasting divisions.

Lippy, I was going to PM you, but depending on what you want to do spending all that time in school to work in Hollywood might not be a good idea.

Other questions PM me, if there's enough interest I'll start another thread.

[ChicagoTroy]

Medaled in a couple big karate tournaments several years back. Nothing too noteworthy lately, I gotta get crackin'.

[Dids]

In terms of things that are tangible, probably some of the stuff I've done at work that has revolutionized our processes, or some info documents I've created that help all of our students.

Personally, it's probably the weight I'm dropping right now, although I hate to count that until it actually stays dropped.

[goofball]

I guess the two things I feel proudest of are getting my physics degree from the UW, and being responsible for starting the boys gymnastics program at my old job, a program that is now thriving.

[onthebutton]

First person in my family to get an undergraduate degree. And I just got my Ph.D. in Cell Biology. /brag

[kidcolin]

Graduating Magna Cum Laude and earning my EE degree (even though I tried my hardest to completely blow it my final semester).

Moving to Sacramento and starting a career all by my lonesome... though it's generally not been the best time of my life and I've struggled to meet people. It's been a challenge I know a lot of my friends wouldn't have attempted, and I've seen and done some things I wouldn't have otherwise. Ultimately, staying sane and not getting depressed for these past 21 months has been an accomplishment.

[kitaristi0]

My biggest accomplishment is definitely getting from a small town in Finland to one of the top psychology departments in the UK.

[imitation]

Dids how much weight have you lost? Good luck with it anyway.

I think losing weight is a good accomplishment, I lost about 50lbs or something. Alot I put in my first year of university but then in the last 6mths I've put back on about 25, though i'm not terribly fat as before because I carry more muscle than I did then from a few years of solid gym with the last year fairly average diet and excessive party lifestyle.

I actually never though of this as an accomplishment because it came of gradually then one day I was thinking back to how much I weighed and it hit me.

[Jiggymike]

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First person in my family to get an undergraduate degree. And I just got my Ph.D. in Cell Biology. /brag

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Hmmm I was also the first person in my immediate family (out to 1st cousins) to finish a 4 year degree, now getting a Masters. I guess I'll put that then because these were the others I could think of
-Getting 1st place in a karate tournament when I was a white belt against people with 1+ years experience
-Learning how to play the guitar
-Hooking up with a hot student from my class when I was TAing (after semester of course)
-Posting in El D's private forum!

[cbloom]

1. Various academic junk, such as getting into Caltech grad school, papers I wrote myself (no professor) published in peer-reviewed journal

2. Lead programmer from start to ship on a AAA video game

3. Haven't killed myself or become a total drug-addicted degenerate yet (most difficult one & most proud of this)

[NorCalJosh]

not my biggest accomplishment, but my friend won the [censored] price is right yesterday. i was pretty happy for him about that.

[BarryLyndon]

Finishing a screenplay after my father passed away and having an editor from "Silence of the Lambs" say it was quite good / wanting to read our final draft. Who knows if it will sell though.

Deciding to say [censored] all the normative young professionals around me and being vociferous about playing poker. Not very good at it, though. So maybe this is not an accomplishment, but sometimes it feels like it.

Making Cornell University (undergrad).

[Spy Dog]

Started a business from scratch when I was 24. Sold it 3 years later for well into 6 figures.

Also, once made 10 birdies in one round (63) of golf in college and none of them came on par 5s (which I played 1 over).

[punkass]

I'm proud to think that if any of my friends needed anything, they can always come to me for unjudgemental help.

Also, I beat Super Mario Bros. without dying, without warps.
Beating Bionic Commando was a good day for me too.

[limon]

1. snuck into college w/o filling out an application or taking any exams
2. built a pirate radio station from the ground up, evaded the feds in L.A. for 2 years
3. survived as a professional gambler back when about .000000000001% of the population had heard of holdem. if i told someone what i did they treated me like a crack addict.

[J.A.Sucker]

limon,

Were you part of the A-Team? That's how I keep picturing you.

[guids]

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1. snuck into college w/o filling out an application or taking any exams
2. built a pirate radio station from the ground up, evaded the feds in L.A. for 2 years
3. survived as a professional gambler back when about .000000000001% of the population had heard of holdem. if i told someone what i did they treated me like a crack addict.

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Awesome.



Mine:

I think the fact that Im still alive, after leading a stupid and reckless life since the age of 19.

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

I don't really think it's that big of a deal, but people seem to think I've done pretty well. I'm also one of those who came from a family not exactly steeped in college tradition, but ended up with my masters in aerospace engineering and in with a pretty sweet company that's quite selective about who they hire at age 22. It's actually not too long ago that I was still younger than some of the interns. After a year in the main office, I've now been in Denver for over 3 years and am in at the beginning of a new regional office. I'm hoping that in 5 or 10 years from now that I can list a thriving office here as an accomplishment that was at least partly mine. What else is cool is that I'm now working on the CEV (replacing the space shuttle), among other things.

[4_2_it]

PDPG,

That sounds awesome. Please design the CEV to take off using a giant conveyor belt instead of a runway or launchpad.


My biggest accomplishment (outside of family) is posting one of the 10 highest scores in the state of Florida when I took the CPA exam.

[El Diablo]

Sucker: Which one do you think limon was?

LFS: FYI, if your wife asks, I think you might want to consider substituting "daughter" for "job" right now.

OP: Probably building a company to double-digit million revenues and almost 200 people. Next time I do this I'll try to skip the downsizing and firesale part.

[mrkilla]

the new Job I start Monday

CTO/IT Director of a Hedge Fund here in NYC.

I can't wait

[Gildwulf]

Performing as a featured soloist (voice) with a band and a choir in a ticketed venue for the 2006 Montreal Jazz Festival.

[Paluka]

http://wizards.com/global/images/magic/general/Meddling_Mage.jpg

[1st and 15]

Conquering my mental issues sans prescirtion meds

Attaining fluency in a second language (Spanish)

[J.A.Sucker]

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Sucker: Which one do you think limon was?



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I haven't decided yet. This should be a new thread, IMO. Go ahead and start it.

[El Diablo]

Paluka,

Isn't being friends w/ Finkel a greater Magic accomplishment than having your own card?

[jgorham]

Winning the college mock trial national championship as both an attorney and witness. Also not buying a ferrari.

[Paluka]

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Paluka,

Isn't being friends w/ Finkel a greater Magic accomplishment than having your own card?

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You clearly don't understand what Jon was like when I became friends with him.
Also, I defeated Jon in the finals to get the ol Meddling Mage.

[JP OSU]

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Started new agency in 1999 with two partners

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LFS:

Knew you were in the industry, but didn't realize you had your own agency. What's your specialty?

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When we opened, on-camera commercials. We now also have youth, theatrical, and hosting/broadcasting divisions.

Lippy, I was going to PM you, but depending on what you want to do spending all that time in school to work in Hollywood might not be a good idea.

Other questions PM me, if there's enough interest I'll start another thread.

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I would definitely be interested in this...

[Los Feliz Slim]

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LFS: FYI, if your wife asks, I think you might want to consider substituting "daughter" for "job" right now.

OP: Probably building a company to double-digit million revenues and almost 200 people. Next time I do this I'll try to skip the downsizing and firesale part.

[/ QUOTE ]

ANY idiot can make a kid. Not an accomplishment at all, IMO. Now, raising a daughter in Los Angeles successfully, I would call an accomplishment. But I can't take credit for that yet.

Downsize and firesale? Know anybody at Sherwood Partners?

[cjmewett]

I wish I had a firm, good answer to this, but it's probably something relating to grad school. At 21 I moved overseas to attend grad school in Poland, where I knew a total of 0 people and spoke about ten words of the language. I ended up writing a 100+ page thesis about NATO expansion and American security policy in eastern Europe, meeting a lot of people, learning enough Polish to have conversations in bars and conduct my daily business (including with my non-English speaking landlord), and still somehow not getting my MA out of the deal. (Oops, maybe not such a great accomplishment.)

In any event, it was very empowering to move somewhere that I didn't know anyone and didn't speak the language and still be able to be socially and intellectually successful (by some standard). Oh yeah, and I moved over there three days after September 11th.

[NLSoldier]

Mine is probably valedictorian of HS class of ~450 although i dont really consider it that much of an accomlishment bc it took v little effort. ill try to think of something cooler that took more effort.

[SnglMaltScotch]

Had a kid at 19 <beat>
Married his mother.
Still together after 13 years.
Would marry her again.
Kid is an honors student with a strong social life and a very well adjusted personallity.
Have succeeded financially to send him to college.

[James Boston]

I had a band in high school. We self-financed and released a CD that we sold a bunch of copies of. We weren't that big of a deal, but had enough of a local following to make me feel really successfull at times.

When I was 24, I stumbled completely a*s backwards into a sales job, having never had any ambition of going into that field. Within one year, I was easily the company's biggest earner - personally bringing 1/3 of the company's entire revenue. Now I'm the manager.

I'm 26 and building a house that I'm really excited about.

[Dominic]

[ QUOTE ]
Moved to LA in 1996, got job in talent agency mailroom
Promoted to Talent Agent in 1997
Started new agency in 1999 with two partners
By the end of 1999/beginning of 2000 we were arguably the top agency for our specialty

So, mailroom boy to partner in a successful talent agency in under four years.

If that's my biggest accomplishment 20 years from now I'm going to be pretty upset. If my daughter turns out to be a happy and good person that will probably win.

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need a partner with a production background? /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[By-Tor]

Being able to trust again.

[B00T]

Bowled 2 300 games along with an 800 series (which is much harder to do).

Started a company that made much more money in 4 months than I'd ever thought it would in it's lifetime.

Own 2 properties by age 25, and now with these awesome gambling laws I will probably double that by the end of '07.

[cbloom]

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and now with these awesome gambling laws I will probably double that by the end of '07.

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??? /images/graemlins/confused.gif

[Claunchy]

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First person in my family to get an undergraduate degree.

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Me too. BA in Philosophy, currently working on my JD.

Nothing noteworthy other than that.

[adsman]

Was asked to participate in the kayak-rafting film "Wicked Liquid 2" and ended up getting major exposure in both a speaking and action part.

Am opening my own bar/club in Italy this year after arriving here seven years ago not speaking a word of the language or knowing anybody.

[NickMPK]

I'm not sure if I would choose any of these if I had to seriously answer this question, but a couple things that spring to mind:

- I graduatate magna cum laude from Harvard (undergrad degree)
- I was once interviewed by Don Imus on his radio program
- At one point, I could name every member of the U.S. House and Senate.

[miajag]

Mostly nerdish stuff.

- won my state's geography bee twice (5th and 8th grade)
- full scholarship to undergrad
- managing editor of campus newspaper in college (2nd largest campus paper in the nation by circulation)
- in 4 months, will be the first person in my family to get a graduate degree (JD).

[kickpushcoast]

i produce hiphop music as a semi serious hobby. i was mentioned and talked about in a NY Times sunday feature about unknown producers who remixed Jay Z's Black Album, the writer compared me to timbaland, which for me is about as high of a compliment as i could get. i ve had tracks on Mick Boogie's mixtapes, which are some of the most popular mixtapes around(www.mickboogie.com).

i've had meetings with major label A&R's but still havent landed anything serious, other than the fact that one of my beats was jacked by one of the most prominent hiphop producers, and ended up being one of Jay Z's best songs.

the popular hiphop DJs where i live play my remixes quite often during their club sets and occasionally on their mainstream radio shows(so im told i dont ever listen to the radio though)

[Eagles]

Is it bad that I can't think of anything?

[Six_of_One]

790 on the GMAT.

Learning to speak backwards.

Winner of the company ping-pong tournament at my former job.

[LuckOfTheDraw]

Last year I quit smoking and lost about 50 lbs (total weight loss since my peak a few years ago is almost 100 lbs). Other than that, I'm a complete loser.

[NhlNut]

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Is it bad that I can't think of anything?

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ED: No, but it's bad that you used this tired posting device. Here's my general thought for this forum. If you don't have anything new to add to a thread besides agree w/ someone else by quoting their response, just keep it to yourself, content that your viewpoint has already been expressed in the thread. Same thing goes with -aments and the like. Unless it's really funny. Thanks.

[The Dude]

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Winner of the company ping-pong tournament at my former job.

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Awesome.

I married my gorgeous and completely awesome wife. Also, we bought a quite successful restaurant at the age of 24.

[Howard Treesong]

Scoring a $64.5 million jury verdict for my favorite clients against a company that did some really scummy stuff.

[djames]

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Scoring a $64.5 million jury verdict for my favorite clients against a company that did some really scummy stuff.

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Did your clients see even a nickel?

[Howard Treesong]

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Scoring a $64.5 million jury verdict for my favorite clients against a company that did some really scummy stuff.

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Did your clients see even a nickel?

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Indeed they did. They saw much much more than they ever thought they would, and were absolutely delighted in the result. As a matter of fact, they actually shipped me a bonus over and above what we'd agreed on, without my asking. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[djames]

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Scoring a $64.5 million jury verdict for my favorite clients against a company that did some really scummy stuff.

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Did your clients see even a nickel?

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Indeed they did. They saw much much more than they ever thought they would, and were absolutely delighted in the result. As a matter of fact, they actually shipped me a bonus over and above what we'd agreed on, without my asking. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

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nh.

[technologic]

unfortunately, my biggest known accomplishment is from being in a poker tournament.

i don't really have any significant accomplishments, being the same age as OP. i think i usually underachieved (felt like if i didn't waste time playing poker during finals my freshman year, i think i could've graduated near the top of my class).

as far as individual accomplishments, i think i'm most proud of when i got a bunch of friends together to play a modified cover for a large culture show. i wasn't aweomely skilled, but i guess that's what made it even harder to get on stage and perform.

[The Yugoslavian]

Only Philosophy major my year (out of a dozen) to get distinction on thesis paper/talk.

Playing an undefeated 4th board on the winning Midwest Amateur Chess team in 2003.

Meh I dno if I have others really. I enjoy myself almost every day which I think is pretty sweet, /images/graemlins/smile.gif.

Yugoslav

[kutuz_off]

I recall being quite proud when I aced entrance exams in a pretty competitive field into a Russian university when I just turned 15, after skipping much of high school for health reasons. Now, more than 11 years later, the fact is that I haven't accomplished anything of note since, so that obviously didn't help me much in life. Bah.

[Catyoul]

Considering my age, it's mostly academic for me : got 2nd in National Mathematics Olympiad once, 1st in Chemistry once, 1st in Physics twice and selected for the team going to the International Olympiads, topped the entrance exam at a very good Belgian engineering college with exactly zero preparation and didn't even go to the results and entrance ceremony (I was at the International Physics Olympiad when it happened) because I didn't want to go there anyway but in France, which leads me to... got accepted in the top French engineering school whithout working much during the two years preparatory schools. Maybe 800/800/690(verbal) at the GRE without any training whatsoever could count too, although it's really easy (English is my 4th language). I'm now 25 and should be finishing my Ph.D. before turning 26. This all came up as way more braggy than I am accustomed to.

I also have great relations with my parents (they definitely have a part in that) and with everybody in general.

I've always gone through (my short) life with much happiness, which is probably one of the most important things now that I think of it.

[cobrakai111]

God you guys have some impressive resumes. Anyone out there hiring an outta work Comm major /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[woodguy]

Taking a $1M/year hardwood distribution business unit bleeding red ink and turning it into a $9.5M unit that is nicely profitable, while helping direct the overall company (7 business units) grow from $30M to $75M while increasing margins 35% (overall 20pts to overall 27pts), all inside a industry that is stupidly price competitive with very little barrier to entry.

Took 6 years for this growth, but by managing overheads my business unit was profitable 3 months after I took it over.

I love wood.

Regards,
Woodguy

[El Diablo]

woodguy,

Wow. If you ever are in the mood to make an "experiences building a traditional real-world business" that would be really great. In fact, there was another guy around here who wrote about his business. I think I'll just start a thread soon called "experiences starting and/or growing businesses" and let everyone contribute as much as they care to.

More importantly, I find it bizarre that after all this time reading your posts, I finally find out that you are indeed a wood guy.

[elwoodblues]

Great wife, 2 great kids, totally happy.

I was also pretty proud to have graduated college in fewer than 4 years and to earn significant scholarships to law school.

[offTopic]

- Another vote for marrying up.
- I was so thrilled with completing my MSCS, I didn't go to graduation (I was already working full-time).
- Won a (small) company Ms. Pac-Man contest (390K, probably not that great for some of you experts).

[2/325Falcon]

I led paratroopers in combat.

[CieloAzor]

1440 on my SATs (went to waste), 2 girls at once (they were pretty slutty), untied world record on Perfect Dark (no longer the record), played in the WSOP last year (bubbled). Yeah, these aren't too great. I haven't done much with my life yet.

[W. Deranged]

Mine are all academic and indeed quite lame:

-Top 50 in the country in USA Math Olympiad in high school
-A.B. Summa cum Laude
-Hoopes Prize (given for top theses at my school)

[IronUnkind]

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Mine are all academic and indeed quite lame:

-Top 50 in the country in USA Math Olympiad in high school
-A.B. Summa cum Laude
-Hoopes Prize (given for top theses at my school)

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These aren't lame at all. What's up with all the self-deprecation in this thread?

[woodguy]

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Wow. If you ever are in the mood to make an "experiences building a traditional real-world business" that would be really great. In fact, there was another guy around here who wrote about his business. I think I'll just start a thread soon called "experiences starting and/or growing businesses" and let everyone contribute as much as they care to.

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El D,

Thanks for the invite, I will take you up on that.

I've actually gone back to my University (University of Alberta) and been a guest lecturer for an old prof of mine who started the "family business & entrepreneurial center" at the U. It was fun lecturing for MBA students when I only had a BComm /images/graemlins/smile.gif, but like you that was enough (probably too much) education for me.

If you start that thread, can you wait until the week of Feb 12? I'm gone for most of the next week and would like to be a part/start that thread.

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More importantly, I find it bizarre that after all this time reading your posts, I finally find out that you are indeed a wood guy.

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I get that a lot around here. Go figure.

Regards,
Woodguy

[mmbt0ne]

Since I only just graduated the answer right now would be graduating with highest honors and ending my college career with my only 4.0.

Hopefully in a few years the answer will have something to do with the new department my company started up for me and my friend based on our senior design project.

[BPA234]

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I led paratroopers in combat.

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So far, in both form and content, this is the only post I have found impressive.
Thanks.

[IHateKeithSmart]

I have been pretty successful in my field, but nothing stands out. No kids or wife yet.

Biggest accomplishment is probably 4.0 in both undergrad and masters. (Sociology, Computer Science)

[The Truth]

Great thread.

My answer is in a little different direction. I am answering the question "What is your greatest accomlishment?" Which is a big difference.

This was one of the two questions during my medical school interviews for which I didn't have a great answer (The other question was "What has been your greatest failure in life?") Every answer I thought of was so mundane it didn't seem worth talking about.


I feel like I am experienced in a lot of different areas. Of course I am proud of my self for making a lot of money in poker and doing well enough in school to get into medical school, however, I can not think of anything I have done in my life that I would consider a "great accomplishment."

I went to school to learn, so that is what I did. I liked poker, so I got better. I don't think winning the intramural basketball tournament is a big deal. I don't see winning the state basketball tournament as a "great accomplishment." I play basketball because its fun, not to accomplish anything.


I have never been to war. I haven't had any great tragedy in my life. I haven't had to overcome great obstacles.
None of the things I have accomplished took some great courage or sacrifice. "I am the middle child of history."


Ultimately, I decided I was the most proud of myself for my overall development as a person. I feel like I do a good job of putting other people before myself. I have empathy for people. If someone does something horrible; I make sure my reaction is an attempt to understand that person's motivations. I am proud that I actively try to improve the world. I am proud of being a thinking smart consumer. I am proud that I don't get upset when people cut me off in traffic. I am extremely proud of the contribution I have made to the lives of my little brothers and my little sister. I feel like I am a great brother.


So, I don't feel like I have any 1 great accomplishment. I think my life has been defined by the decisions I have made, and by my influence on the world around me. That's good enough for me.

[nath]

[ QUOTE ]
unfortunately, my biggest known accomplishment is from being in a poker tournament.

[/ QUOTE ]

me too.

none of the other stuff i've done that i'm proud of feels like a particular accomplishment. i'm really happy with the short film i made, but i was only one part of that. and i did a lot of other things i'm happy with (and some i'm not), but calling them "accomplishments" might be a stretch.

i'm still alive-- that feels pretty big to me at this point, even if there are some things about it that will never be the way i want them to be.

[NLSoldier]

[ QUOTE ]
Mine is probably valedictorian of HS class of ~450 although i dont really consider it that much of an accomlishment bc it took v little effort. ill try to think of something cooler that took more effort.

[/ QUOTE ]

I guess finishing college in 3 yrs might be better than valedictorian but that doesnt feel like much of an accomplishment either. Maybe it will in a few months when it actually happens.

[kniper]

I am in my last semester at law school. i never knew i was capable of completing sooooo much work. seriously. its ridiculous how much work law school is. I coasted through undergrad getting a 3.7 in comp sci when i was drunk like 20% of the time. And all this considering i DO NOT want to be a lawyer. I kinda feel proud.

I seriously hope i complete something much more worthy in my lifetime tho, obv.

[Howard Treesong]

Well, what do you want to do? Working as a lawyer can lead to some interesting accomplishments.

[scotchnrocks]

i have designed bridges that are safe to be driven on by pretty much anything with wheels

[nolanfan34]

All,

Ditto on the Woodguy response from ElD. I didn't realize the background on the name. I worked at a hardwood store in college, good times.

Biggest accomplishment, a few things come to mind.

Nerd entry: I was really big into DECA in high school, a marketing organization, and took 2nd place nationally in my event senior year (Food Marketing Master Employee!)

Professional: Probably fulfilling my dream at the time of making it in TV News. Proving I could succeed in that business, being recognized in person for the first few times.

Personal: Calling my wife to tell her we were going to be homeowners was pretty big.

[B00T]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
and now with these awesome gambling laws I will probably double that by the end of '07.

[/ QUOTE ]

??? /images/graemlins/confused.gif

[/ QUOTE ]

I dont need a 6 figure bankroll anymore, so I need somethin else to dump the money into... /images/graemlins/cool.gif

[bennyhana]

moved 1300 miles from my hometown with everything I owned in the back of a Suzuki Samurai (including 15 cased of Keystone Light /images/graemlins/smirk.gif) when I was 18, and survived.

Married my beautiful wife.

Raising my beautiful daughter.

[Zeno]

Raping the forests of Oregon and Alaska

Getting a BS in Geology at age 32

Starting graduate school at 35, then writing my Master Thesis and also a paper based on it that was published in a well-respected peer-reviewed science journal.

Standing on a lava dome in an active volcano while it was erupting. Meeting and working with top scientists in the USGS.

Climbing Popocatepetl at age 41.

Gradually coming to comfortable terms with my natural misanthropy.

Going to meet someone cold turkey in China.

Having three careers by age 53 and thinking on doing a fourth.

Becoming a God.


**************************************

I can't decide which is the 'biggest accomplishment' or if I left it out. Perhaps there really isn't one or many. Just in the end - silence.

Le Misanthrope

[El Diablo]

NL,

"I guess finishing college in 3 yrs might be better than valedictorian but that doesnt feel like much of an accomplishment either. Maybe it will in a few months when it actually happens."

Your gf is a bigger accomplishment than graduating in 7 years.

[adsman]

I was thinking about this thread last night and I realised that what I wrote was just off the top of my head. My biggest accomplishment is saving the lives of four people in seperate drowning incidents. I think that's a bit more important than being in a film.

[jzpiano]

Only two that come to mind are finishing college in 3.5 years with two majors (history and music)

Playing a solo recital for an audience of 3000+ people on piano, which was one of the last concerts I gave before I suffered a career ending injury /images/graemlins/mad.gif

[JTrout]

It's a depressing question for me. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif But I can't think of anything I've accomplished better than being medalist in the '88 SEC golf championship, finishing ahead of Toms, Dimarco, Flesh, and the rest.

I'm guessing (maybe hoping) that the greatest accomplishment in most our lives is how we positively influence people around us, most of the time without realizing it.

[Kneel B4 Zod]

probably helping grow a company that did $93,454 in monthly revenue (from when I started 2 years ago) to one that did $6,238,273 last month, and continues to grow at Dark Helmet style ludicrous speed. basically from nowhere to an 07 revenue target of > $100m.

holla at value creation.

[ElliotR]

Graduating first in my law school class.

Turning a total dog-with-fleas patent infringement case into a nine-figure settlement for my client.

Hopefully, "being a great dad" will someday trump this but it's too early to say.

[kb09pkt]

Beating cancer when I was given less than a 50% chance of living. (BTW, I am only 27 years old)

[registrar]

In some ways, this thread makes me quite depressed because of all the things that I haven't achieved. In terms of boasts, turning down sex with Kate Beckinsale when at college is probably the thing that would turn most heads. It seemed pretty cool at the time as I has a girlfriend but the gf is long gone and as most of my college friends did actually have sex with Kate Beckinsale, I feel I missed out there. It's not a great boast is it "I could have if I wanted"

As for other accomplishments, they feel quite empty because I never really had to work that hard for them.

Without wishing to sound too twee, I'm pretty proud that I have raised two children who are happy and well-adjusted, so far, and, for a variety of reasons, this is actually a fairly susbstantial achievement given myself and my wife's personalities and backgrounds and where it all started. I'm pretty pleased that I'm still married after six years as well and that my wife is just so [censored] cool, despite being a total pain in the arse most of the time. It's a good thing never to have regretted accidentally getting her pregnant.

In terms of how my life has matched up to my teenaged aspirations, well, I never published a novel but I did get into Oxford. I have just seen an enormous amount of the world and lived a life rich in experience in a relatively short space of time. The only continent I haven't travelled extensively is Africa. Oh and America. And it strikes me that this is something my children and grandchildren won't be able to do. I've been shot at in Kashmir, slept on the streets of Calcutta, ridden an MX125 through the Golden Triangle, drunk sailors under the table in Gdansk, seen in snow in the Sahara, taken a speedboat across the Straits of Malacca, shot up in ashrams in Georgetown, had my girlfriend abducted in Marseilles, seen my team win the greatest football match of all time in Istanbul, spent weeks in Bangkok hospitals, run drugs accross five borders and, generally, been about.

Oh, and I independently conceived the theory that Newton in fact the Last Magus. But I can't prove that.

[kitaristi0]

[ QUOTE ]
Learning to speak backwards.

[/ QUOTE ]

This is hot. Are you actually fluent or have you just memorised a bunch of phrases?

[ThomasPHoolery]

Getting quoted at age 21 in both New York Times and Washington Post.

Coming back from retrograde amnesia to graduate from Harvard (undergrad).

[Jurollo]

[ QUOTE ]
turning down sex with Kate Beckinsale when at college

[/ QUOTE ]
You sir, are an idiot! /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[W. Deranged]

[ QUOTE ]
Getting quoted at age 21 in both New York Times and Washington Post.

Coming back from retrograde amnesia to graduate from Harvard (undergrad).

[/ QUOTE ]

I think there should be something about Julliard in this response, ThomP.

[ThomasPHoolery]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
Getting quoted at age 21 in both New York Times and Washington Post.

Coming back from retrograde amnesia to graduate from Harvard (undergrad).

[/ QUOTE ]

I think there should be something about Julliard in this response, ThomP.

[/ QUOTE ]

Fine. Getting in there, turning it down, realizing it was probably the best decision I ever made.

[Tom Ames]

Probably not my "biggest" accomplishment, but my proudest was unhesitatingly throwing myself on top of my family when an F4 tornado came through our yard while "knowing" that our house was about to come down on top of us under the weight of some huge oak trees. Fortunately, it didn't and my reaction became moot. If I'd been asked beforehand, what my reaction would be in a situation like that, I'm not sure if I'd have been able to answer.

[eviljeff]

I never told anyone this before. About 8 or 9 months ago I'm in my Constitutional Law class and I see Justice Scalia walk in and he goes and sits at the podium. The whole place stops when Justice [censored] Scalia walks in.

Everybody closes their laptops. After a little while, there wasn't a journal meeting going 'cause all the gunners are in our classroom listening to him. Some are arguing with him, giving away their dignity to this guy to say "oh I argued with a Supreme Court Justice".

And you know what I did? I raised my hand and turned on my mic. I know you're thinking "nah you need months of research and a bar card to argue right with a guy like that". Well I had my pocket copy of the Constitution, but I had to know. I played it cool for awhile, nodded along through most of his points, but then I went for the kill.

You're thinking "McCulloch v. Maryland or Marbury v. Madison?". Nothing. I made up the precedent. He quoted Reinquist. I decided, you know, I don't care about reputation. I'm just gonna outdebate this guy. This time. I cite Article III. And he just comes right back at me with the Federalist Papers trying to bully me like I'm some [censored] 1L. I hesitate for two seconds and quote something he never heard of. And he makes a move toward his briefcase and shuffles through his papers. And then he turned off his mic. I took it down. "Unpublished Marshall dissent footnote?" he asked. "Sorry Anton, I don't remember". I got up and walked to the registrar.

I argued with the best and I won.

[PokerAmateur4]

[ QUOTE ]
1. snuck into college w/o filling out an application or taking any exams
2. built a pirate radio station from the ground up, evaded the feds in L.A. for 2 years
3. survived as a professional gambler back when about .000000000001% of the population had heard of holdem. if i told someone what i did they treated me like a crack addict.

[/ QUOTE ]
1. How, what college, when?
2. Trip report on construction and shut down plz.

TPH:
You stole my avatar

[Jurollo]

[ QUOTE ]
woodguy,

Wow. If you ever are in the mood to make an "experiences building a traditional real-world business" that would be really great. In fact, there was another guy around here who wrote about his business. I think I'll just start a thread soon called "experiences starting and/or growing businesses" and let everyone contribute as much as they care to.

More importantly, I find it bizarre that after all this time reading your posts, I finally find out that you are indeed a wood guy.

[/ QUOTE ]
I would love to see such a thread!

P.S. Maker's & Coke please!

[miajag]

[ QUOTE ]
I never told anyone this before. About 8 or 9 months ago I'm in my Constitutional Law class and I see Justice Scalia walk in and he goes and sits at the podium. The whole place stops when Justice [censored] Scalia walks in.

Everybody closes their laptops. After a little while, there wasn't a journal meeting going 'cause all the gunners are in our classroom listening to him. Some are arguing with him, giving away their dignity to this guy to say "oh I argued with a Supreme Court Justice".

And you know what I did? I raised my hand and turned on my mic. I know you're thinking "nah you need months of research and a bar card to argue right with a guy like that". Well I had my pocket copy of the Constitution, but I had to know. I played it cool for awhile, nodded along through most of his points, but then I went for the kill.

You're thinking "McCulloch v. Maryland or Marbury v. Madison?". Nothing. I made up the precedent. He quoted Reinquist. I decided, you know, I don't care about reputation. I'm just gonna outdebate this guy. This time. I cite Article III. And he just comes right back at me with the Federalist Papers trying to bully me like I'm some [censored] 1L. I hesitate for two seconds and quote something he never heard of. And he makes a move toward his briefcase and shuffles through his papers. And then he turned off his mic. I took it down. "Unpublished Marshall dissent footnote?" he asked. "Sorry Anton, I don't remember". I got up and walked to the registrar.

I argued with the best and I won.

[/ QUOTE ]

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[raptor517]

Wow, i find it sad that i cant think of much. I used to be a singer believe it or not, and not many people that didn't know me in high school know this. I sang at Carnegie Hall and Bass Hall (Fort Worth). I made all state twice in a row, second chair my first year, so that was kinda big-ish. (Second year i slacked off, was 5th chair, whatever.)

Umm.. was scouted by a D1 school and a bunch of D2 schools and JuCos for baseball (I was a pitcher, but hit .460 my junior year), then decided to ruin my shoulder halfway through my senior year, which sent me into a downward spiral leading me to dropout pretty quickly into my freshman semester and pursue this poker thing. Hopefully in the coming years i will have something more meaninful down as an accomplishment..

[cantsitstillbr]

[ QUOTE ]
woodguy,

Wow. If you ever are in the mood to make an "experiences building a traditional real-world business" that would be really great. In fact, there was another guy around here who wrote about his business. I think I'll just start a thread soon called "experiences starting and/or growing businesses" and let everyone contribute as much as they care to.


[/ QUOTE ]

I would love to see this topic discussed. I'm a senior graduating in Entrepreneurship from Auburn University and feel I have learn quite abit about evaluating business models, writing business plans, venture creation, ect.. but lack the technical knowledge and the capital to come up with something that I could really hit a homerun with. I'd really like to hear from people that made it big coming from a regular middle class family, having very little capital, student loans to pay off, ect...

I really hope some of you with experiance can take the time to respond or pm to this

[CPFB]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
Getting quoted at age 21 in both New York Times and Washington Post.

Coming back from retrograde amnesia to graduate from Harvard (undergrad).

[/ QUOTE ]

I think there should be something about Julliard in this response, ThomP.

[/ QUOTE ]

Fine. Getting in there, turning it down, realizing it was probably the best decision I ever made.

[/ QUOTE ]

I'm just curious, but why did you turn down Julliard? I just finished my B.M. in Music Performance and Julliard is at the top of my list of graduate schools.

What about Julliard turned you off? /hijack

[ThomasPHoolery]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
Getting quoted at age 21 in both New York Times and Washington Post.

Coming back from retrograde amnesia to graduate from Harvard (undergrad).

[/ QUOTE ]

I think there should be something about Julliard in this response, ThomP.

[/ QUOTE ]

Fine. Getting in there, turning it down, realizing it was probably the best decision I ever made.

[/ QUOTE ]

I'm just curious, but why did you turn down Julliard? I just finished my B.M. in Music Performance and Julliard is at the top of my list of graduate schools.

What about Julliard turned you off? /hijack

[/ QUOTE ]

Had very serious doubts about whether I actually wanted to pursue a career in theatre. After talking with a few mentors/ friends who were there, they told me that if I was not 100% sure that this is what I wanted to do with my life, I shouldn't go, because I would be miserable. If after 4 years in college I decided that it was something I wanted to do, I'd re-evaluate then, but at the time I had other interests I had to pursue. I was 18, had no real idea what I wanted to do with my life, and had some other great opportunities before me. It had nothing to do with Julliard specifically-- it was the only conservatory I was even considering-- just the conservatory education in general, which, at the time I just couldn't commit to.

Happy with how it turned out.

[BigPoppa]

Raising a kid

[thesnowman22]

I have done many things i am proud of:
-Playing college basketball
-masters degree
-Member of the North carolina Wiffle Ball HOF (lame, I know)

However as i thought about it, four things that are truly important stand out:

-Marrying a wonderful woman
-Being a good father to my two beautiful twin girls
-Accepting Jesus as my Savior
-Giving the eulogy at my Mother's funeral (tough)

[ChubNub]

I'm 19 and I'd have to say one of my biggest accomplishments was winning the Division I CIF(california interscholastic federation) championship for San Diego in boy's volleyball.

[Acein8ter]

Probably my investments. I moved my way up starting with a few thousand bucks for a down payment on a condo 12+ years ago, then moved into a small house.
Now I am lucky to have 3 single family home rentals and 2 duplexes. My 401k and IRA totals 160k or so. My personal Etrade account is at 85k.

[maryfield48]

When the company that I worked for was bought by a competitor, I went through the most stressful year or so of my professional life. I regarded it as my obligation to make sure that our employees were treated as fairly as possible. I was balancing that against my concerns for my position. There were times when tact and diplomacy were called for, both in dealing with the 'other side' and in dealing with my employees, and there were times when I had to argue my position forcefully.

I was able to succeed (by my own definition) and the end result was most of the employees who wanted to stay did, and I ended up in an executive role with the merged entity.

Personally, I was able to convince a beautiful, giving, intelligent, spirited, proud woman to marry me.

More recently though, Soul Daddy, Alobar & Dids agreed that I am responsible for what may the best Cliff's notes to a long post ever. That's got to count for something, right?

[edtost]

getting into princeton

getting a competitive hedge fund job with a 2.9 gpa and no connections

[Greeksquared]

I dunked a basketball. I'm 5'11 on a good day and not black.

Statistics Masters.

[Squareview]

wow, i sit here and actually think about my life. but i would never want to sound like samo and air out everything that is bragable. but yea getting laid freshman year of highschool to a frosh cheerleader( my gf) was 2 thumbs up

[Esection]

rocked the Series 7 & 63 tests when i was 18, and on the phones cold-calling by 19 ala Boiler Room style (minus the illegal part) for a boutique investment bank.

['Chair]

college was great, but its definitely NOT going to be the best years of my life...I am excited for my future. I think this is pretty big.

[adoah]

did the ironman triathlon, twice. er, that's about it i guess. oh, learned chinese, so now speak 3 languages. the ironman is by far the most difficult thing i've ever done, and it's not even close.

[jalexand42]

Mine falls in the starting business vein...

I was a director level employee in a .com fiasco from 2000-2002. $11 million investment spent for about $75,000 in generated revenue.

A group of us (including company founders) went to the executive team/VC about changing the direction of the company. VC guy determines he is bored with the investment, unilaterally decides to liquidate. Good news was we had $4 mil in the bank that was distributed to the shareholders (of course he got the majority back).

Took the leap of faith to start from scratch and implement the change of direction we proposed. Built enterprise software products from scratch with NO customers and $200,000 in starting cash + founders living off their own assets.

We've officially more than doubled our revenue every year since our initial customer in Jan 2003. In 2006, we posted our first seven digit year of revenue, with 35%+ profit margin. Debt free, growing fast, and implementing YOUR plan = good [censored].

[drexah]

[ QUOTE ]
Graduating first in my law school class.

Turning a total dog-with-fleas patent infringement case into a nine-figure settlement for my client.

Hopefully, "being a great dad" will someday trump this but it's too early to say.

[/ QUOTE ]


mind sharing the story/info of the case? and how much $ exactly did he and you both get.

[drexah]

im also 19 so my range of accomplishments is far less than some of you, but things that stick out are having the discipline and motivation to make it through a post graduate year after i had already graduated high school [with a 1.8] which then actually got me into a good college. winning a state championship in soccer in mass. my junior year of H.S. making my college lax team (and a bunch of other sports accomplishments but these are two big ones) one thing i wish i could say though is that i'd been a better brother to my 10 yo sister.

[adanthar]

Wow, some of you are ridiculous. Congrats.

I don't have much right now that isn't poker related, but I sort of get the feeling that ten years from now, I'm either going to be a multimillionaire in exile or some kind of hotshot RE developer. Either way, I guess I'm up for it.

[Fast Food Knight]

-Being an All State flute player
-Scoring a 790 on the GRE math section after studying for about half an hour
-Scoring a 6/6 on the GMAT written section after zero test preparation
-Helluva Dean's List engineer from Georgia Tech by the age of 21

No single accomplishment is that great, which is why I listed all of them. Makes me feel better.

[[censored]]

[ QUOTE ]
-Being an All State flute player

[/ QUOTE ]

FFK,

hot!

re:OP,

for me its probably completing my service in the Army honorably and then reaching my goal of getting a job with a big 4 accounting firm when I finished school.

[Pudge714]

It's funny how due to the nature of this forum poker accomplishments aren't considered real accomplishments.

Raptor,
If I were to show you your house right now and told you when you were 18 that you would not only be living in that house, but you would own it. I'm pretty sure you wouldn't believe it or you would feel like you accomplished something pretty damn impressive.

As for me it's kind of tough, I'm very happy with the life I'm living, but there aren't many great accomplishments. It seems everything I'm good at people are better than me at. For me I need to "win" regardless of what winning is, I'm always happy with a second place, but I'm also very disappointed. There is lots of stuff I have done, which I'm proud of but nothing which I feel is my "biggest accomplishment." While this is a subjective question I feel like I should be able to answer it objectively correctly instantaneously. Maybe within a year or so I will have a good answer, until then I will continue to ramble nonsensically.

[Baulucky]

I double a $1K bankroll 15 times in 3.5 years (with no employees).

I decide I have enough of the money game. I fire my two remaining customers.

I now go fishing with the locals in rudimentary boats as a hobby, and raise my 5 year old daughter.

I'm bored and content, but happyness eludes me.

[maryfield48]

[ QUOTE ]
I double a $1K bankroll 15 times in 3.5 years (with no employees).

I decide I have enough of the money game. I fire my two remaining customers.

I now go fishing with the locals in rudimentary boats as a hobby, and raise my 5 year old daughter.

I'm bored and content, but happyness eludes me.

[/ QUOTE ]

I think Loc. should read "Let it ride"

[JTrout]

[ QUOTE ]
I double a $1K bankroll 15 times in 3.5 years (with no employees).

[/ QUOTE ]


You turned $1,000 into over $50 million? Sweet!

[traz]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
I double a $1K bankroll 15 times in 3.5 years (with no employees).

[/ QUOTE ]


You turned $1,000 into over $50 million? Sweet!

[/ QUOTE ]

lol yea, my first thought

[slush fund]

failed in first attempt out of law school to start own firm. 6 months later friend brings me business idea and start new firm may of 2003 with $50k equity loan in spare bedroom of apartment.

just broke monthly revenue record in january to tune of $615,000 and now have 25 employees. so busto to robusto in 3.5 years.

yes the money is finally worth the 6 and 7 day weeks the past three years, but i can honestly say i have never experienced this much stress in my entire life. i used to dream about owning my own business, but being in my early thirties i never thought i would have this much responsibility or worry about this much crap.

yes i know complaining about it is very douche, just saying that accomplishment doesn't always equal happiness. the only thing that keeps me going now is that i hope i can squirrel enough away to retire and get out of the busniess as quickly as possible because this pace is sending me to an early grave and most of the time is the very opposite of fun.

[Baulucky]

[ QUOTE ]
You turned $1,000 into over $50 million? Sweet!

[/ QUOTE ]

Actually $1K*2**15 = approx. $33 M < $50 M

[proell]

this thread is a great read. awesome to see what everyone has done, and what they value from their past. you guys are awesome.

I guess mine would have to be raising 3 kids, starting with a surprise at age 20 as a broke musician, and making it here with everyone relatively intact.

Playing an opening role on a summer concert tour with Neil Young, Morphine, Primus, and Ben Folds Five, would also have to be up there.

[Jurollo]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
-Being an All State flute player

[/ QUOTE ]

FFK,

hot!

re:OP,

for me its probably completing my service in the Army honorably and then reaching my goal of getting a job with a big 4 accounting firm when I finished school.

[/ QUOTE ]
I didn't know you were in the Army [censored]. Makes me understand a lot of stuff about how you work. (That could sound like a dig but it isnt at all so don't take it that way).

[theBruiser500]

My biggest accomplishment could be this email exchange:

wow I just see this email now from a certain Aaron Winslow to the
umass antiwar group. Let me warn you about this person. Do not trust
him he is not good. He is probably a undercover spy for Republicans
or some other unreasonable group because he is very unreasonable
himself. He failed me from FRESHMEN ENGLISH WRITING despite the fact
that i did all the major assignments and came to most classes. WOW
THANKS A LOT AARON, umass antiwar coalition, your next move is crystal
clear, do not allow him to join and corrupt the group.

goodluck dealing with this menance
danny

RESPONSE FROM A MEMBER OF THE GROUP I KNOW, CHINESE TEACHER

This is so hilarious, I can only assume it is intended as a joke. It was
especially clever of Danny to include so many grammatical and spelling
errors in his complaint about having failed Freshmen English Writing.
But seriously, we should strive to keep this kind of thing off of the
list. It's unnecessary, distracting, and potentially hurtful.

Sigrid

OTHER RANDOM EMAIL

Hi Everyone,

Just a quick note to say that comments on the character of AWC members are not
appropriate for this list. Everyone in the AWC is working for positive social
change, and working hard at it too. Aaron is an excellent guy and an
excellent organizer. Let's try to keep this list positive and on subject!

Peace,

Jordana

TWO RESPONSES FROM A GIRL I HAD A CRUSH ON, A GRAD STUDENT AND SEMI LEADER OF GROUP

Hi Danny,
I'm writing as the list moderator. Your email is completely uncalled
for. Please abstain from sending emails with personal attacks.
Sofia

SECOND EMAIL WRITTEN PERSONALLY TO ME

I agree with Jordana. Please abstain from such emails. Aaron has
probably been working harder than anyone else in the coalition. And
even if he wasn't that still doesn't warrant the email that was sent
out about him.

We came to an understanding a while ago that if something like this
happens, a warning will be sent by the moderator, and if it happens
again, the privilege to send emails to the list will be revoked.

Sofia

MY UNANSWERED RESPONSE TO SOFIA

Completely uncalled for? Didn't you read my email, he failed me for
his class that means I need to take FRESHMEN ENGLISH WRITING for a 3rd
time. Come on seriously, who is the one that should be banned from
the email list?

danny

[JTrout]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
You turned $1,000 into over $50 million? Sweet!

[/ QUOTE ]

Actually $1K*2**15 = approx. $33 M < $50 M

[/ QUOTE ]

Hell, that's still pretty good. /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[Kimbell175113]

800 Verbal SAT is the only thing I can think of (740 on the math, so... meh, but I did only take it once and I just blame it on variance)

[Nick Rainey]

Winning the 2002 NCAA Team Title in tennis at USC. Being Captain and singles and doubles All-American was just icing on the cake.

[Nick Rainey]

[ QUOTE ]
I dunked a basketball. I'm 5'11 on a good day and not black.



[/ QUOTE ]

Is that even possible?

[AK Fisher]

Well,

Started a Limo service at 18, in the SF bay area that I ran for 6 years . Then sold .

Stopped a pretty bad habit of doing to much partying !!!!

Moved to Alaska started a tech biz . With my girlfriend of 15 years now...

Spent all last summer camping and fishing ( reds and king salmon) with my DAD and close friends....

beat: Have to go on chemo for three to six months may need a transplant.

[Bulldog]

Until I have my first child, this will probably rank number one for me:

After four years as an HS assistant basketball coach, I took a job at a perennial doormat as the head coach. In 38 years before I got there, they had no winning seasons (just 9 wins in their best season), no playoff wins, and a program win percentage of under .200.

In my second year, we won 9 games, squeaked into the district playoffs as a 16-seed, and hung with the defending state champs (margin in single digits in the fourth quarter) before they pulled away at the end.

In my third year, we went 14-12. We won our first-round playoff game, which was my ultimate goal from day one. We went 11-3 in games decided by five points or less, which I am very proud of.

[ElSapo]

Twice won the S.C. State Fencing (foil) Championship.

Left my job and recieved a grant from the District of Columbia to do a photo documentary on a neighborhood in transition.