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Originally Posted by SleazyDream
8. Talk about your time in the Dominican Republic.
9. Talk about Isreal's secret service and your interest there in.
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Finance was my first "career". After working in investment banking for only 11 months, I had a crisis of conscience.
While unspeakably lucrative for a person in their early 20's, the work was ethically and morally challenging for me on several levels.
At that time, I was also in a relationship with someone who had very specific ideas about what they wanted and when they wanted it.
The money I was making in IB made her happy, but the work was making me miserable.
Another convergent circumstance was that my very best friend, Gil, had just had an emotional breakdown, and I was spending a lot of time with him, trying to make him well.
For our different reasons, we both (Gil and I) found ourselves longing for change.
We were both young, idealistic and very cause-oriented.
Gil had "family" I BELIEVE were "associated" with the Israeli intelligence agency -- the Mossad.
I spoke to some of these people and they became interested in us as recruits.
We took steps in that direction, but, ultimately thought better of it, and decided it would be too hard to part from our families in the manner that would have been necessary.
With our trip-zeal fully aroused, we decided, instead, to go to the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean.
As always with the unfolding of life's events, everything that is supposed to happen, does. We found what we were looking for. We did a lot of soul-searching in a beautiful place, and met amazing people --
seekers, as we were.
One such was a beautiful Dominican girl, I met and married on the island.
We were together only a few months, but it figures among the most essential experiences of my life.
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