A High School Dropout Builds a Bus Empire After Selling His Car

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Kimi Takura : “People should find something they like and do it,” he said. “I’m now a bus nerd. Nerds do what they like and it doesn’t feel like work.”

A High School Dropout Builds a Bus Empire After Selling His Car

by Chris Cooper and Katsuyo Kuwako
January 15, 2017, 11:00 PM GMT+8

Kimi Takura quit his fast-paced job as a deliveryman when he was 22 after he was hospitalized for a month with exhaustion. Out of work, he sold his much-loved Jaguar car, bought a secondhand bus and started a one-man business driving Taiwanese tourists around Japan.

He worked every day he could for the next year, ferrying passengers between Tokyo and Osaka, and to Kyoto and other sightseeing spots, when a travel agent offered to lend him money to buy three more buses. Takura’s business boomed so much he found he needed even more.
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I loved driving,” said Takura, chief executive officer of Heisei Enterprise Inc., who dropped out of high school after his father’s business went bankrupt and worked to earn the money for his own car.

More details in https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...ng-his-car

[Big Toe]

Very inspiring. The person who is very successful is usually obsessed with the activity he/she is involved in.
Living and breathing the trade. No exception here.

However if he is in Singapore, chances of success maybe lower, if he owns a jaguar here and sells it. There is a high chance he still owes the bank money and wont be about to afford the 2nd hand bus. Either that or he may not have the chance to own the Jaguar in the first place.

[soros]

Rather interesting to read in the Bloomberg report that the average age of bus drivers in Japan is 48 and difficult to recruit new drivers .

I remember reading in a newspaper report ( probably Straits Times ) the average age of bus drivers in Singapore is 58 and many were previously hired from Guangzhou.