Interesting thread.. Ok, the easy part.
I'm self employed, and for the past 23 years I have called myself a "Master Roaster", of Nuts. I roast, value add, package, market and sell Nuts. Yeah,ok, I flog my nuts for a living! Hence my company, The Batemans Bay Nut Roasting Co. P/L, the occupational humour, and the squirrell, of which another version, (actually a modified microsoft clipart - remember them? ) is our company logo. Sans watch etc..
As for Yande... that's a bit more personal. I'm Australian and my local area was initially habitated by the Yuin people, aboriginal people, of which I have many friends. When I was growing up in the era of surfboards and isolated beaches, "Yande" was the adopted Yuin name for Marijuana, as in, "we was smokin' Yande." You either played football and drank beer, or surfed and smoked dope. I surfed, that is, until I moved away after finishing school to the city (1977) & then Heroin (and travel) became my drug of choice for the next 3 decades. After a time the internet happened, and Yande seemed to be as good a nick as any, for apart from an esoteric group, noone knew what it meant and I still find it to be unique.
There is light! A couple of years after stopping using (illegal) drugs, I bought my first decent watch, a Tag Heuer 1500, and the rest is history. You could say I became addicted to horology!
馃憤 Stopping Heroin was comparitively easy, alcohol, on the other hand was another story altogether.
Below are some of the results from abstinence, apart from being happily married for 12 years to the most wonderful person I could ever imagine. Those marked X have been moved on. Regrettably.
Obviously I am now comfortable with my past, and could not care at all by those that are not..
