A step-by-step guide to finding your dream life and actually making it happen with Simon Squibb

... concept, and I enjoy it.

I en- I enjoyed taking something from nothing and making it real, and I got a bit addicted to that.

So when I was in a job, what was security, I guess, which was the salary bit, wasn't enough to take away ...

The, I would pitch an idea to my boss, and they would say, "No, no, Simon, that's not what we do here.

That's, you know, we're not gonna take the inquiries and turn it into a business.

We're a hotel.

We just, we just take bookings.

You know, sell the conference room, please." You know, that type of thing.

Mm.

Right? So I'd woken up.

That's the only way I can describe it.

My, my ability to accept commands that didn't make sense or opportunities that were being missed, I, my brain just wouldn't accept it anymore.

Yeah.

If I had, if I hadn't started something that failed, I wouldn't have felt that feeling I'm talking about.

It's so funny, 'cause when you say that, that really makes me think of what I felt originally when ... 'Cause I only did 13 months in corporate before I, I guess, I became an entrepreneur.

And the only reason that happened, I think I would've done well more had I started that corporate, in that corporate world after university.

But because I did that before university when I was 18, and I had s- the one main thing I had issues with in the corporate world, I didn't mind the hours, I didn't mind having a boss, I didn't mind ... or I found it very glamorous.

I thought it was great.

I loved tottering around.

I thought it was, you know, I thought it was what I wanted to do.

The thing that frustrated me the most was when things were being done slowly, inefficiently, or in a way that didn't make sense to the business, and there was no way to change it-

Mm

... because it was just the way things were done.

I think had I not got so frustrated with that, I would've gone to university, started the businesses as I did, and still gone back into corporate.

Because I would've thought, "Just as I haven't tried entrepreneurship, I haven't tried my corporate dream yet."