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To: David who wrote (173899)	6/29/2021 12:06:57 AM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218579

Re <<I resigned ... company is looking for a path>> think you did correct, and hope you chance upon something you prefer during the course of meandering summer. ideally the flow not obvious so that each day is an adventure. Short story ... prologue was here Message 32640791 Spoke w/ French Creole English Jewish Hakka Chinese nephew in Shanghai who owns and operates a coffee whole sale business with a retail tag-along He used to be a … gold trader for a German firm which got rolled into Enron … early retired by selling China ops clientele to a Texas firm that later ended up w/ Enron residual … and started his coffee biz - the way to get gold into China was to buy gold-rich copper concentrate... and about flow vs the path ... perhaps best to go with the flow and forget the path, for the path might be booby trapped, whereas the flow tends to be smoother. Enron metals had my nephew and his partner on the payroll and kept sending them checks (which they banked but did not spend until the all-clear signal) for 6+ months (perhaps 1/2M a piece), from the time the two boyz (copper traders based in Shanghai, my nephew a French Creole Hakka Chinese English Jewish Moslem kid, and his Peruvian Japanese partner) quit the company as it was going down the tubes and they had instruction to cease all trading, on the one hand, and their clients telling the two that they would be backed by the clients should they quit Enron and keep trading directly for the clients. The copper concentrate had a high % gold that was officially valued at zero. The boys traded for 6+ months on their own account, backed by their clients, and they banked but not spent any of their undeserved wage checks, and could not figure out why the company kept paying them, and yet did not challenge them on non-compete basis (other than the truth that the entire Shanghai-based trading operation was a-legal (as opposed to illegal, for those early days were not constrained by holes in the laws and gaps in the regulations). Perhaps in the 7th month the company, Enron Metals, newly acquired by some Texas firm, offered the two Boyz each 1.5M in tranches for them to re-engage with the company and bring back the clients. They did so, for the greater good. There is always a path forward, just not always obvious, and at times going at perpendicular or even opposite the direction of destination :0) Later, it became obvious that Enron wanted to show a flag / star / X on its global map of offices to boost its prospect for sales of metals trading a-legal operation. I do not know what the Peruvian boy is now doing, but my nephew has been doing his coffee wholesale (w/ flagship retail) operation for as long as I can remember, on the grub stake from the Enron debacle.