Trading stocks for shots

We have all been there, daydreaming about opening a bar with your buddies while your MD sits in your neck at midnight. Would be curious to hear if you or someone you know made an unconventional exit like opening a bar, becoming a yoga teacher or brewing your own beer?

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I have a friend who worked at MS and then started this awesome bar in UES called "The Big Easy." I saw Mark Cuban there one night. He had to close for some reason I don't know and now is back in the corporate world.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

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