Interesting post, but it doesn't fit me. How come?
I was born during WW2 on our kitchen table, while Budapest was bombarded. I grew up in communism under miserable conditions. Fortunately I received good education and acquiered high degrees with honor. I am proud of my MS (Telecom) and PhD (Electron Pysics). After schools, I work…
Interesting post, but it doesn't fit me. How come?
I was born during WW2 on our kitchen table, while Budapest was bombarded. I grew up in communism under miserable conditions. Fortunately I received good education and acquiered high degrees with honor. I am proud of my MS (Telecom) and PhD (Electron Pysics). After schools, I worked 8-7 instead of 9-5 jobs for most of my life. (workaholic +) In Government, in University and in non-profit. (No corporate jobs.) In 90 % I thrived in my jobs. As a junior associate I learned a lot from my excellent bosses. (Lucky me) As a senior manager I forged fantastic teams and achieved great results serving the common good, and earned decent money. As an advisor to the prime minister I made a bold advice to negotiate with the Western alliance to get rid of the COCOM proscribed destinations list, and allow Hungary to access modern technologies. He approved, and I successfully carried out the negotiations. I set up the Export Control System, later the National Cyber Security Center operating smoothly with the relevant European and Global professional partners.
Our Theodore Puskas Foundation and its two wholly owned subsidiaries became respected players in the Hungarian IT industry. Among others we provided the National Security Services with world class large custom designed IT systems.
With my wife and our children we trotted the Globe over, the Bucket List covers six continents and a jillion pictures, mirroring unforgettable memories. In the wide attic of my late wife's medical office I have a respectable collection of beautiful safari trophies from six continents.
I have never had time to think about liberating myself from my (more than 9-5) jobs.
Then, as a lightning from the blue sky, with a change of goverment we lost everything overnight. The Foundation was closed down, the assets were nationalized. Not a phone call, not a letter or an email... no gentlemen.
We learnt it from the National Register.
I was left on my own, on my state pension. My colleauges - all good professionals - had to find new jobs.
For ten years this pensioner was licking his wounds and lost his marvellous wife to Leukaemia. At 80, he shrug his shoulders and came to Substack to find a new fraternity, and start writing.
I am honored to be here, in the company of so many smart and noble friends.
Thank you for restacking. Once, I had to tell the truth about how I related to my own story. I want to share it. One more thing: when I was young, in the fifties and early sixties, a private entrepreneur could be a tobacconist, a hairdresser, and not much else. Farmers and plumbers were forced into kolhoz-like cooperatives. Instead of a market economy, everything was state-run and state-controlled. Travel to the West was forbidden. Even visiting my family living in Romania was rare and difficult. It was called “real socialism”. After the brutal oppression of the 1956 revolution, a gradual normalization started, and freedom was regained drop by drop. The real freedom began in 1989-90. Democracy arrived. My thriving mainly occurred in the next twenty years. Then, it was gradually stolen by a nepotist hybrid Orbán regime we are suffering from now. Today, on our national holiday, a huge demonstration will show we have had enough.
Hi Zsolt, talked about you yesterday in my LIVE on Substack. I just love that you're meeting Gabby on a regular basis IRL and I also do like your openness. You dare to share all these stories. The bad things that happened and the good.
I'd be honored if you'd write a guest post about sharing your anecdotes and memoirs
As a child, I was an extrovert and adored performing poems in front of many people. In the first 25 years of my career, I was an intelligence officer working in the shadows and got used to staying in the shadows. My extraversion was muted. Thirty-five years have passed since, and I lived an exciting life. Extraversion unmuted. A few friends told me they saw my achievements but would prefer to see the man behind them. Kurz und gut: I would love to write you a guest post if we find a subject. Also, chatting on a podcast could be interesting one day.
Kristina,
Interesting post, but it doesn't fit me. How come?
I was born during WW2 on our kitchen table, while Budapest was bombarded. I grew up in communism under miserable conditions. Fortunately I received good education and acquiered high degrees with honor. I am proud of my MS (Telecom) and PhD (Electron Pysics). After schools, I worked 8-7 instead of 9-5 jobs for most of my life. (workaholic +) In Government, in University and in non-profit. (No corporate jobs.) In 90 % I thrived in my jobs. As a junior associate I learned a lot from my excellent bosses. (Lucky me) As a senior manager I forged fantastic teams and achieved great results serving the common good, and earned decent money. As an advisor to the prime minister I made a bold advice to negotiate with the Western alliance to get rid of the COCOM proscribed destinations list, and allow Hungary to access modern technologies. He approved, and I successfully carried out the negotiations. I set up the Export Control System, later the National Cyber Security Center operating smoothly with the relevant European and Global professional partners.
Our Theodore Puskas Foundation and its two wholly owned subsidiaries became respected players in the Hungarian IT industry. Among others we provided the National Security Services with world class large custom designed IT systems.
With my wife and our children we trotted the Globe over, the Bucket List covers six continents and a jillion pictures, mirroring unforgettable memories. In the wide attic of my late wife's medical office I have a respectable collection of beautiful safari trophies from six continents.
I have never had time to think about liberating myself from my (more than 9-5) jobs.
Then, as a lightning from the blue sky, with a change of goverment we lost everything overnight. The Foundation was closed down, the assets were nationalized. Not a phone call, not a letter or an email... no gentlemen.
We learnt it from the National Register.
I was left on my own, on my state pension. My colleauges - all good professionals - had to find new jobs.
For ten years this pensioner was licking his wounds and lost his marvellous wife to Leukaemia. At 80, he shrug his shoulders and came to Substack to find a new fraternity, and start writing.
I am honored to be here, in the company of so many smart and noble friends.
Thank you!
Kristina, I am still more then open to write about my adventures. Give me a spark to ignite my downloading process.
Kristina,
Thank you for restacking. Once, I had to tell the truth about how I related to my own story. I want to share it. One more thing: when I was young, in the fifties and early sixties, a private entrepreneur could be a tobacconist, a hairdresser, and not much else. Farmers and plumbers were forced into kolhoz-like cooperatives. Instead of a market economy, everything was state-run and state-controlled. Travel to the West was forbidden. Even visiting my family living in Romania was rare and difficult. It was called “real socialism”. After the brutal oppression of the 1956 revolution, a gradual normalization started, and freedom was regained drop by drop. The real freedom began in 1989-90. Democracy arrived. My thriving mainly occurred in the next twenty years. Then, it was gradually stolen by a nepotist hybrid Orbán regime we are suffering from now. Today, on our national holiday, a huge demonstration will show we have had enough.
Hi Zsolt, talked about you yesterday in my LIVE on Substack. I just love that you're meeting Gabby on a regular basis IRL and I also do like your openness. You dare to share all these stories. The bad things that happened and the good.
I'd be honored if you'd write a guest post about sharing your anecdotes and memoirs
Oh wanted to add some more but need to go outside with the kids. Will come back later
Thank you, Kristina.
As a child, I was an extrovert and adored performing poems in front of many people. In the first 25 years of my career, I was an intelligence officer working in the shadows and got used to staying in the shadows. My extraversion was muted. Thirty-five years have passed since, and I lived an exciting life. Extraversion unmuted. A few friends told me they saw my achievements but would prefer to see the man behind them. Kurz und gut: I would love to write you a guest post if we find a subject. Also, chatting on a podcast could be interesting one day.