Business

There I was again, the very last person in the office. It always started out the same way. Five o’clock hit and I thought to myself, “One more email. Five more minutes won’t hurt.” And then two hours later, I arrived home to a husband grumbling over a home-cooked dinner that lost all its warmth long ago.

One day, as I walked out of the office, past all of the empty parking spots that I envied, I thought to myself, “What if I was one of those people who just left on time?”

And then I thought, “What if I really was one of those people?”

Moving to Qatar for work was one of the greatest challenges I have ever faced. I had lived my whole life in an insignificant city, never leaving town even to go to university, and working in my city’s small hospital. Then I got married and decided that it would be a whole new definition of “fun” to tag along with my husband on his new offer in the far off, mysterious Middle East.

Martin Ridgers has had some of the best backstage passes to the Super Bowl you can possibly get. Well, sort of.

Ridgers is owner of MKR, LLC, in New York City, and he has worked as an underwriter on at least 10 Super Bowls, not to mention multiple Olympic Games and World Cups. When you’re involved in making everything run smoothly, you work extensively behind the scenes, which also means you get access to a lot of information about the event before everyone else.