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Thanks for joining the community. I have a "fun" life story:

1999-2009 Involved in Lions Bay Search & Rescue and became one of the go-to people for technical mountain rescues.
2005-ish Attended university for adventure tourism (+ business management)
1999-2012-ish - Pro-level climber, skier, and downhill mountain biker.
2004-ish Suffered many [MANY] should dislocations through mountain biking and had surgery on both shoulders.
2005-ish got a massive infection in shoulder as a result of the surgeries. Turned out to be a flesh eating virus the CDC had never seen before.
2006-ish Got severe frost-bit while on a school trip and the night temps below -60. Was air lifted to hospital and was potentially going to loose my foot but recovered over 4-6 months.
2009 realized a career in adventure tourism relies on physical fitness so if you break your leg you can't work. Continued working in restaurants and thought about being a red seal chef.
2011 Got sick of restaurants where, as a chef, you essentially are a babysitter for young, unmotivated staff.
2011 A friend got me a job as an insurance broker while I figured things out.
2013 Was asked to join a new insurance company. It's easier to take a climber and teach them to insure adventure tourism risk than to teach an underwriter how to run an adventure tourism business.
2012-ish - Created risk-apps.com as a place for special events, non-profits, and adventure tourism operators to build online risk management plans.
2014 Folded Risk Apps through my own inability to be agile and actually release an app.
2013-2017 - Insurance career trended more and more to InfoSec and web app development.
2016 - Hit by a car and nearly killed. (https://www.indiehackers.com/post/a-letter-to-my-22-year-old-self-on-entrepreneurship-49d70f8f81?commentId=-M2eur_RvlBnAMpNhAyI) & (https://www.indiehackers.com/post/the-stripe-guide-to-managing-founder-stress-52185caad0?commentId=-M3XuATe5tIU6ur5p2QD)
2017+ - Still on disablity, still recovering, still suffering from the impacts of the crash.
2020-Feb - I told the medical & legal team I'd like to end disability, live off savings, and publicly work on Lakebed. Then a pandemic hits...

So much fun! Tell us about your life story.

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Thanks for joining the community. I have a "fun" life story:
- 1999-2009 Involved in Lions Bay Search & Rescue and became one of the go-to people for technical mountain rescues.
- 2005-ish Attended university for adventure tourism (+ business management)
- 1999-2012-ish - Pro-level climber, skier, and downhill mountain biker.
- 2004-ish Suffered many [MANY] should dislocations through mountain biking and had surgery on both shoulders.
- 2005-ish got a massive infection in shoulder as a result of the surgeries. Turned out to be a flesh eating virus the CDC had never seen before.
- 2006-ish Got severe frost-bit while on a school trip and the night temps below -60. Was air lifted to hospital and was potentially going to loose my foot but recovered over 4-6 months.
- 2009 realized a career in adventure tourism relies on physical fitness so if you break your leg you can't work. Continued working in restaurants and thought about being a red seal chef.
- 2011 Got sick of restaurants where, as a chef, you essentially are a babysitter for young, unmotivated staff.
- 2011 A friend got me a job as an insurance broker while I figured things out.
- 2013 Was asked to join a new insurance company. It's easier to take a climber and teach them to insure adventure tourism risk than to teach an underwriter how to run an adventure tourism business.
- 2012-ish - Created risk-apps.com as a place for special events, non-profits, and adventure tourism operators to build online risk management plans.
- 2014 Folded Risk Apps through my own inability to be agile and actually release an app.
- 2013-2017 - Insurance career trended more and more to InfoSec and web app development.
  2016 - Hit by a car and nearly killed. (https://www.indiehackers.com/post/a-letter-to-my-22-year-old-self-on-entrepreneurship-49d70f8f81?commentId=-M2eur_RvlBnAMpNhAyI) & (https://www.indiehackers.com/post/the-stripe-guide-to-managing-founder-stress-52185caad0?commentId=-M3XuATe5tIU6ur5p2QD)
- 2017+ - Still on disablity, still recovering, still suffering from the impacts of the crash.
- 2020-Feb - I told the medical & legal team I'd like to end disability, live off savings, and publicly work on Lakebed. Then a pandemic hits...
So much fun! Tell us about your life story.
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