Nightlife Entrepreneurs

As I was having brunch this afternoon, I was reminiscing. Texting through the magic of Whatsapp, where a group of about forty of my elementary school friends or shall I say, my childhood brothers and sisters, got together after twenty-five years in order to stay in touch. I could not help it but think about how different, yet still the same we all were Today.

I left Barranquilla, Colombia when I was thirteen years old. At the time when I was starting to step out of my shell. I had never gone out with a girl, as a matter of fact, I had never even been kissed. Well, except for those spin the bottle games and what we called the American hide and seek. I will never forget my last year living in my hometown, mostly because this was when things started to change for me. Up to that moment in my life, you would say without any doubt that I was a shy and introvert kid. Playing sports with my friends and cousins was what I called my social life.

Some of my most memorable memories of that...

The year was 1993 and I had just graduated from high school just like most students at the time I had no idea what I wanted, but I thought I knew it all. Being eighteen years old and finishing high school gave me and almost everyone I knew a false sense of power and a strange feeling of supremacy. All of a sudden we were better than everyone, we were the big boys, we did not want to ask any more questions, because we knew all the answers. Even our parents became inferior to us, I mean what would they know, they are so old and don't understand the world the way we do.  I am not sure if this resonates with you, but this is my story for sure.

I was one of those kids that started college in the summer in order to get a head start from all others, I mean I wanted to conquer the world and there was no way that I would go on vacation for three months when I knew that I could get started on my career and start earning the big bucks.

Accounting is what I called my career at...