I was born in Nassau, Bahamas on the 14th May, 1968 to struggling but very proud parents. Through the many experiences I’ve personally encountered, as a child growing up in an environment of limited material resources, I’ve learnt to use whatever was at my immediate disposal to accomplish whatever task I was placed to complete. On several occasions, finding myself having to invent the tools I used on a daily bases, not because of ingenuity but out of necessity.
I was what clinical psychologist would recognize as a functional sociopath; always adapting to my environment, mimicking those within my community that impressed upon me an idealistic social statue. I was never truly able to realistically conform to the norms of mental and physical poverty, which, I could only assume, made me into a sort of geek-ish freak; or so I was commonly told by my childhood acquaintances.
Throughout my school year I not only excelled at the academic curriculums but also in various athletic challenges, which were odd, to me, at the time because my real interest of serious studies was girls, and did they flock to me. Looking back in retrospect I now can appreciate why the girls were so interested in me, and, why the guys wanted to beat the crap out of me, so apart from being in the chess club, fine arts and a photography major; I was also a member of the Karate team.
When I graduated from high school, college was heavily on my mine, but as it turned out; my father had slightly different plans for me, I ended up as a busboy in one of the hotels on Paradise Island for which I found out; was a breathing ground of young sociopathic individual like myself, and, sufficient to say; I excelled at my game. Having been promoted to various top level positions in neck breaking speed, I felt that the hotel business was really not for me and, after five (5) years, I decided to take my final exit.
I've tried my hands at a variety of profession for seventeen (17) years after leaving the hotel and never truly found what I was born to do, even though I excelled, commanding top dollar salaries at managerial levels; my heart still longed for something more…something real, a place I could call my own. That search led me to start my own company, and on my birthday, 2006, I opened up Da Clique Group of Companies.
As president of Da Clique Group, I feel like that young kid again; inventing new products and/or new ways of providing services to my valuable clients, not because of ingenuity but out of necessity. Although everyday is a struggle, I’ve learn to take it like my proud parent taught me, and, not being a stranger to conflicts and controversies; deep down in my heart there is nothing else I would rather be doing.
I have not made my first million dollars yet but for the first time in my life I can truly and honestly say “I have found what I was born to do”, and who could ask for anything more.
Chris Rolle (Mr.)
Da Clique Group
Truth above Honor
cool man, I can appreciate a man who has made himself, my story is very much the same, less than finacially, raised by my mom,made something of myself.
I am the proud father of 4 great kids, and am blessed with the woman beyond my dreams.
now I am taking her to my home...Andros.
