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🗓️ 22 April 2022
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| 0:00.0 | I find it so interesting that sometimes we can take what seems to be a really small action, |
| 0:14.9 | but it ends up being something really big. |
| 0:21.6 | Back in 1998, I was living in Maine with my wife and our two young kids. |
| 0:27.1 | I was working at a regular office job. |
| 0:30.2 | Then one day I needed to have some printing done. |
| 0:33.7 | This was before the days of high quality inkjet printers, so it was common to go to a local |
| 0:38.0 | print shop and get whatever you needed to have printed. |
| 0:42.7 | While I was paying for my stuff, I noticed a small piece of paper on the counter. |
| 0:48.1 | Someone had left a little note that said, I need tutoring in Microsoft Word. |
| 0:54.3 | If you can help, call this number. |
| 0:57.6 | And I thought, yeah, I know Word, maybe I can help. |
| 1:01.2 | So I took the note and called her later. |
| 1:04.8 | I ended up going over there and we spent a couple of hours going through the various functions |
| 1:09.2 | of Word and how to do things. |
| 1:12.4 | And she paid me. |
| 1:14.9 | So I thought, maybe this is a sort of side hustle that I could do in my spare time to make |
| 1:19.9 | some extra money. |
| 1:22.2 | That's how my computer business, which is called the computer tutor, got started. |
| 1:28.2 | And it turned into a full time job doing computer instruction and computer repair for over |
| 1:34.4 | 20 years. |
| 1:36.8 | And that whole thing started just by me happening to notice that little piece of paper on the |
| 1:42.7 | counter in that print shop. |
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