I remember what you did for us 2/3

I remember you were brave. And you went against the grain of what everyone else said. I remember someone saying at school they were looking for older, more experienced men to work at B&Q but you said you didn’t want to do that. We lived in a big house in a pretty area but there was no work. No work that you knew you could be really good at. You did the MBA, your sister was so generous and paid for it. But that wasn’t quite the right thing. Your heart wasn’t in it. You didn’t want to go to work and be the anger sponge between staff and senior management. That would have killed your dreams and intellect.

Then you hit upon something. I came home from school and saw all the books. There were loads of them. You were learning a new skill. A new coding language. You said there was a market demand for this. And that’s where your new business got started. Sure enough the small contracts came through. You told me at the job centre, they told you to remove the fact you’d joined a seminary as a teenager on your CV. You’d refused to. And interestingly your first new boss was a lovely Muslim lady - who’d commented that your CV was intriguing because you’d studied to become a priest.