Shores of the Bosphorus - Istanbul's Beautiful and Important Waterway
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Back in 2003, I worked as a stock broker. I enjoyed the interaction with customers, but didn't really like the pushy sales aspect of it. I would sometimes have long and wandering conversations with my potential clients - one of them, a New Yorker named Joel stopped me during a pitch for Krispy Kreme donuts one day and said out of the blue "What the hell are you doing working as a stockbroker? You need to quit that job, move to Turkey and open a guest house on the shores of the Bosphorus!" I should have listened to him, but instead slogged through stock broking for a while more, wrote some books, worked as a commercial fisherman, and eventually became a tour guide in Hawaii - before finally ending up on the shores of the Bosphorus nearly a decade later...now in 2019, I look back at the time I was in Turkey (from 2010-2012) as one of the most deeply fulfilling periods in my life - largely because of my connection with the Bosphorus...I have no idea how he knew - but Joel was right. I wrote the following while I was there.
Shores of the Bosphorus - Istanbul's Beautiful and Important Waterway
Shores of the Bosphorus - Istanbul's…
Shores of the Bosphorus - Istanbul's Beautiful and Important Waterway
Back in 2003, I worked as a stock broker. I enjoyed the interaction with customers, but didn't really like the pushy sales aspect of it. I would sometimes have long and wandering conversations with my potential clients - one of them, a New Yorker named Joel stopped me during a pitch for Krispy Kreme donuts one day and said out of the blue "What the hell are you doing working as a stockbroker? You need to quit that job, move to Turkey and open a guest house on the shores of the Bosphorus!" I should have listened to him, but instead slogged through stock broking for a while more, wrote some books, worked as a commercial fisherman, and eventually became a tour guide in Hawaii - before finally ending up on the shores of the Bosphorus nearly a decade later...now in 2019, I look back at the time I was in Turkey (from 2010-2012) as one of the most deeply fulfilling periods in my life - largely because of my connection with the Bosphorus...I have no idea how he knew - but Joel was right. I wrote the following while I was there.