Other businesses?
yannis: I had and have numerous over the years. I had a successful Contracting business (electro-mechanical) for quite a few years, a Consulting Business in the same field, a Computer School in the days that the masses wanted to learn DOS :), a plastic bags factory. The software business has always been my sideline even when luck was not on my side (running a couple of web projects now).The Contracting Business found a glorious end when the Zulus were marching in central Johannesburg some years back and the Construction Industry just faded away. The Computer School ran out of capital when Windows came out and I had to replace 200 computers and I sold it to someone else (I hated mice for quite a few years after that). The Plastics factory was a big thing for me until they banned plastic bags and I cashed in! Oh! and I forgot and I had this great software that was used for designing Halon 1301 Fire Protection systems that all the big data Centers were using until the Ozone Layer appeared and halon was banned! I am now busy with the greatest thing after Primavera!I guess I am from the Old Hacker School. Isn't that what you guys do? Just let your imagination roam and do things? Over the years two things kept being with me right through all the businesses, I take time to revisit my Maths twice a year and I program. It keeps me sane and now and then makes me some additional income.