If things weren't working out by the end of the summer he'd fire me and I go back to Stanford for business school, that didn't sound too terrible.

如果不行的话，他就炒了我呗,我还可以会斯坦福继续读商科，这听起来又不会太差。

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That didn't pan out, so he went back to the business he'd known growing up: timber.

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"I've found myself doing the very thing I thought I wouldn't have to do which was commuting into Belfast to do my business or indeed flying over back to England, " he said.

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Wouldn't you also like to go back 30 years in the business world, knowing what you know now?

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