When I was in college there was a young man named Bill. Bill majored in partying, drinking and playing some stupid card game called Hearts. He was getting D's and F's. Came back every Thursday night beyond blasted and was near death every Friday morning. Also promised never to touch another drop. Rinse and repeat weekly. For Spring break when all the cool kids were going to Florida, he and other D/F boy decided to go to Arizona and to check out the girls on the ASU campus. In the meantime he got notice that he was being withdrawn from school.
So, he and the other boy decided that wanted to go to ASU, but could not get in. So... they moved there and attended a community college for two years trying to get their act together. After that he made it into ASU.
He was most likely never to succeed, but was super chatty and was a very fun guy to hang with.
30 years later he had his assistant, Karen, who was one of the young ladies on our sister floor, arrange a 30 year (or was it 35?) reunion. He smartly arranged it in Oak Brook Illinois on Saturday night of Thanksgiving weekend, when many would be home to visit family.
He was wearing a very nice baseball jacket with the name Bohica Industry (that was the name we called our floor in college). He told me that he proudly has attended a baseball game in every ballpark in the nation. Karin always makes all his arrangements. He said he would be happy to visit any time if there was a Cubs game.
So, I asked Bill what kind of work he is doing. He told me he is the president and CEO of Bohica Industries. Hah hah, right. He told me he has a cyber security company, and his number one client was the U.S. government. So how much could he really be doing, right? He told me, IIRC that he did like $87 million in business the prior year. Wait, could that possibly be true, from such a big loser like Bill?
I told my IT guy this story a couple of weeks ago. So my IT guy looked him up on Indeed and maybe some business publication, and found out that last year Bill's company did $200 million in business. Mostly with the U.S. government. Wowie Kazowie. That would be a whole lotta eye exams.
