About Me — Mark Farrar

Expatriate Brit — Entrepreneur and Writer

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Hi! My name is Mark Farrar, and welcome to my About Me page!

I’ll be talking a bit about my personal background and history, my interests, and, of course, my writing.

Childhood

I was born in the United Kingdom, where I was an only child. (I was also an only grandchild and only nephew, which meant I was spoiled rotten.)

I went to a small, local, private day school until I was seven, and then attended one of the country’s less well-known boarding schools, about 25 miles away from home, which I left at 17, having completed my A and S Level exams.

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Early Adult Life

After leaving school, I declined the option to go to university and ended up working for my father for three years — as a yeast merchant. It was not my desire to continue the business he started, but it was a job I fell into when another one fell through at the last minute.

After that, in 1979, I decided to go into information technology, or data processing as it was called back then, with a large insurance company. In 1986, I moved to a household-name bank…