Why would you turn this down!? You idiot.
Back in the late 90s and early noughties, younger DinivanX had a big old corporate drive thing going on. I'd started my own company in Uni, sold it for a nice profit, done a load of cool* things in eCommerce (* not cool, just innovative at the time) and worked for a load of huge companies and won a few awards, all before the age of 23. Get me.

At the time my one and only passion was music and to be precise, I had a massively snobby attitude to it and would only entertain even vaguely liking bands which no-one else had heard of, along with a back catalogue of classic "poncey hipster" (well they would be now, no-one had invented hipster back then, thank god, but I had the glasses, the courdrouys and the tweed jacket in 2000 ...all got ditched before it became popular of course) albums.

I decided to quit my 9-6 and go it alone to start another company, this time an online games company and I looked for funding to support the development I wanted to do with the gaming system I had bought the rights to.

About two weeks into me putting together a full business plan a guy who I had worked with a couple of times phoned me up (on my swanky flip bottom Matrix Nokia Phone) and asked me if I wanted to be Head of Digital for MTV Europe as they had seen some of the stuff I had done for interactive TV and with web tech. I was disgusted and went into a trademark DinivanX rant! Who the fuck did MTV think they were with their shit pop music, terrible videos and pathetic twat presenters!? Those sell-outs were everything that was wrong with music I told him. I could never work for a company as wrong as theirs. He spluttered a little and said "I'm on speakerphone with the board here, err I guess I'll catch up with you at some other time" and the line went dead. I never heard from him again.

Forward 6 months and my games company had failed to get any funding and was dead in the water. My meagre savings had evaporated and I was back to looking for a crap 9-6 but the internet bubble had popped and suddenly senior jobs for cocky young things weren't quite the two a penny they were in the late 90s and lots of competition was on the market, quite a lot of it nowhere near as arrogant as me. I even had to move back in with my folks for a bit, bringing me right down to earth.

Still wonder what would have happened if I wasn't such a dick.
( DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Thu 3 Apr 2014, 17:00, 4 replies)

Of course you realize
You would still be a dick.
(the other guy not the one that gave you coochie warts, Thu 3 Apr 2014, 17:10, closed)

Yeah, but I'd be a better off dick.
Also dicks don't tend to have any self-awareness, so it wouldn't have troubled me.
( DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Thu 3 Apr 2014, 17:14, closed)

A guy I know used to work for MTV.

It's shit, apparently.
(cs1ca, Thu 3 Apr 2014, 18:00, closed)

6 figure bullet dodged :)

( DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 8:50, closed)