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After reading a post by user Sky Garden in another thread of this great forum, I realized that I've never introduced myself. Well, it's not exactly true, I did it once but it was in another forum I was frequenting, in a thread answering to a troll who was inquiring about my pedigree.
My name is Olivier, I am french at the moment, 46 years old, married to a lovely Minahasan woman and we have three kids aged 19, 13 and 8 y.o. We live in Manado, a lovely city you probably never heard of on the northern tip of the Sulawesi Island. I landed there around 16 years ago in search of a place to settle and live, after traveling from China down to Indonesia.
My professional background is in trading. Goods, services, about anything. If it can be bought and sold, if it can be created and valued, if there's money to be make out of it, I am interested. It's a bit like an incurable disease. It never leaves me alone. I got my first interesting lucrative experience with trading at a pretty early age and it paved the way to what I am now.
This is funny because I still have a rather clear souvenir of it. I was 7 or 8 and my school was organizing its annual end of the year party with a bingo like lottery with various ridiculous price to be won.
Every student was proposed a bulk of 10 bingo cards to be sold at FF 1 each and we were rewarded 10 centimes per card sold. I sold all mine and started to buy back those of my fellow classmate who didn't want to do the effort to sell them. I went walking through my village, ringing or knocking at every door to peddle my stuff, then I started to go though neighboring villages, walking kilometers to sell my cards. I was well treated everywhere I went and my young age undoubtedly helped me a lot to gain the heart of potential customers. Got offered candies pretty much anywhere and I end up selling 39 bulks which generate me my first modal to do further business in school. I think I've never stop trading since then.
Today, to the despair of my wife, I buy anything that anyone peddles by my door, even if I don't need it. I know what it means to walk kilometers to sell stuff. I did it for fun, they do it to eat.
I studied Business and, concurrently, Law at a french university. Got a Master of each, perhaps the only think I've owned that I didn't try to sell back for a profit.
I had (and still have) no special interest in Law but have always thought that knowing your rights and your limits may be useful, especially for one who intend to do business. Perhaps that sometimes I will post a reference or two about Law if I know anything about it, but really, it's not a topic that I enjoy particularly.
I created my first company when I was a student. Tourism business. then later I created two companies in the Import/Export field. I never tried to work for someone, my personality unfortunately wouldn't fit well in a structured company under the authority of a boss.
Today I manage with my wife a small company where we have heaps of various different activities. We have been invested in passenger and merchandise transportation, public tenders, trade of various commodities, supply of the hospitality industry of my region with any of their needs, ...etc. It keeps me doing what I love and leave me little time for hobbies such as diving... or posting.
I'll try my best to be a good fellow member here. Nice to meet ya all.
O.
My name is Olivier, I am french at the moment, 46 years old, married to a lovely Minahasan woman and we have three kids aged 19, 13 and 8 y.o. We live in Manado, a lovely city you probably never heard of on the northern tip of the Sulawesi Island. I landed there around 16 years ago in search of a place to settle and live, after traveling from China down to Indonesia.
My professional background is in trading. Goods, services, about anything. If it can be bought and sold, if it can be created and valued, if there's money to be make out of it, I am interested. It's a bit like an incurable disease. It never leaves me alone. I got my first interesting lucrative experience with trading at a pretty early age and it paved the way to what I am now.
This is funny because I still have a rather clear souvenir of it. I was 7 or 8 and my school was organizing its annual end of the year party with a bingo like lottery with various ridiculous price to be won.
Every student was proposed a bulk of 10 bingo cards to be sold at FF 1 each and we were rewarded 10 centimes per card sold. I sold all mine and started to buy back those of my fellow classmate who didn't want to do the effort to sell them. I went walking through my village, ringing or knocking at every door to peddle my stuff, then I started to go though neighboring villages, walking kilometers to sell my cards. I was well treated everywhere I went and my young age undoubtedly helped me a lot to gain the heart of potential customers. Got offered candies pretty much anywhere and I end up selling 39 bulks which generate me my first modal to do further business in school. I think I've never stop trading since then.
Today, to the despair of my wife, I buy anything that anyone peddles by my door, even if I don't need it. I know what it means to walk kilometers to sell stuff. I did it for fun, they do it to eat.
I studied Business and, concurrently, Law at a french university. Got a Master of each, perhaps the only think I've owned that I didn't try to sell back for a profit.
I had (and still have) no special interest in Law but have always thought that knowing your rights and your limits may be useful, especially for one who intend to do business. Perhaps that sometimes I will post a reference or two about Law if I know anything about it, but really, it's not a topic that I enjoy particularly.
I created my first company when I was a student. Tourism business. then later I created two companies in the Import/Export field. I never tried to work for someone, my personality unfortunately wouldn't fit well in a structured company under the authority of a boss.
Today I manage with my wife a small company where we have heaps of various different activities. We have been invested in passenger and merchandise transportation, public tenders, trade of various commodities, supply of the hospitality industry of my region with any of their needs, ...etc. It keeps me doing what I love and leave me little time for hobbies such as diving... or posting.
I'll try my best to be a good fellow member here. Nice to meet ya all.
O.
... I think that farting, nose-picking and ball-scratching area is in the cage.
