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An Analogue Man In A Digital World. 1 Man's Business & Musical Journey From The 1960's Till Now. Different Business Environments, Forms Of Music & Colours/Hairstyles !!!TRANSCRIPT
An Analogue Man in a Digital World
1 Mans Musical & Business Journey from the 1960’s Till Now
I Am A Child Of the 1960’s
My 1st 45 That My Mum Bought Me
For The Kids that is a funny black small thing that has a hole in it & turns around
1969 - Saw Man land on the Moon live
Got a 1/2 Day Off School !!!
I Grew Up In The 1970’s
Long Hair Blue Jeans Bell Bottoms Mexican Jackets…..Analogue rules !!!
1973 - Bought My 1st LP with own cash
Turns Out It Is A Classic As Well
School Days
Record that Impacted on Me as Teenager
Long Hair Big Guitars & Swivelling Hips I Couldn't Believe What I Was Seeing On Countdown
1st Concert AC/DC & The Angels
apollo stadium - richmond 1977
I started full time employment on 8/12/1980
• Start of my working career
• The end of the days of innocence
Worked in Banking as a Search Clerk getting copies of land titles
Titles held in large old books like ledgers a bit like entering the Munsters Mansion
spent my first pay check
A massive $70 - this LP cost me $20 at the time
Working In The Early 1980’s
• Regulation Mullet Hairstyle &/Or New Romantic (Duran Duran)
• Ciak Shoes (white canvas shoes)
• Skinny Ties & Bright Colours (My Personal Fave - Marone)
Working In The Early 1980’s
• Type 2 finger style on a type writer with carbon paper
• Using analogue adding machines for calculations
• Process all transactions using a ledger machine
• Deliver cheques each day to Head Office for dispatch
• Used to smoke in my tellers box
• Banks open from 10.00 am to 3.00 pm
CMI Fairlight Computer - the move towards digital
• Music then moved forward with CMI in 1980
• Each machine was hand built with expensive components that cost $40,000
• Company Went Broke in Mid 1980’s
1983 - Appointed to the Account Information Data
System Team
• Or AIDS for short
• Went around the countryside converting manual branch accounts to computer based files
Bought a Sony Walkman
who didn’t have one of these
Bought a Compact Disc Player
Indestructible - or so we were told
Late 1980’s
Colours & Hairstyles still haven’t changed……. just yet
Late 1980’s
Growth & sales was all that mattered
$3 Bn Fallout - 1991 State Bank & SA BROKE
1993 - Moved Into Financial Planning
All “Plans” written out in long handsecretary would type some letters
1990’s
• Recession We “Had To Have”
• Bond Market Crash
• Russian/Latin American Crisis
• Long Term Capital Management (LTCM)
• Family/Kids/House/Mortgage
• Tech Boom
1999 - The Start Of Download
Napster Peaked in February 2001 & was closed down by July 2001 Broke by Mid 2002 *#$$%## Metallica !!!
Keith Richards – I Never Had A Problem With Drugs
ONLY PEOPLE !!!!
2020 Financial Planning
Started March 1st 2000
Tech Wreck Started March 10th 2000
Since 2000
• 9/11
• Iraq War
• Credit Boom
• Lehman Brothers
• GFC
• Rudd/Gillard/Rudd…
AHA MOMENT !!!
MORE THAN RICH, MORE THAN FAMOUS, MORE THAN EVER BEING HAPPY,
I WANTED TO BE GREAT
2007
IPOD Touch
I waited until the better tech was released
Today - IPhone 5S
LOVE IT
What I’ve Learned from Business
• People & Relationships matter
• Stay True To Yourself & Your Values
• Treat Others How You Would Like To Be Treated Yourself
• Determination & Persistence Pays Off
• Never Stop Asking How Can I Do Things Better
WHAT I’VE LEARNED ABOUT MUSIC
ROCK N’ ROLL AINT NOISE POLLUTION !!
Richie Parsons Rock N’ Roll Adviser
Richie Parsons left a well paid job to start a financial planning firm from scratch. He is active in Social Media & is passionate about people making smart choices with money. For more information contact [email protected]/2020fpyoutube.com/2020fp