So, of all of the jobs you’ve held, which one’s been the most interesting? Why?
(I’m hoping – naïvely, perhaps – that people will post serious responses here, not childish stuff.)
I was a warhead designer for ten years. I got to create all sorts of interesting computer models, program and run the milling machines and lathes to build the hardware, and go out to test sites to see stuff getting blown up.
At the first test I ever attended, a 1 lb. piece of tantalum knocked a one-ton target six feet: lots of kinetic energy.
I was a Jedi Master on the Jedi Council on Coruscant for 800 years. Unfortunately, politics forced me to renounce my citizenship and I moved to a nonextradition third-world planet.
And to seriouslyy answer your question–I did worked (more or less) in the same capacity as Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden. The job is much less exciting than you probably think. Again–it was less like “Enemy of the State” and more like “Office Space”.
I had a US government job that sounds interesting, but in reality was quite boring.
The most interesting job has been and continues to be personal trainer. Dealing with different personalities and seeing what motivates people is very interesting. Clients thank you for their results, unlike in finance where the client is never satisfied, always looking for another 50 bps of return or 1% lower vol. Personal training clients do not bitch about only losing 10 pounds or only being able to run a mile 20 seconds faster than before, they are happy with results and there is a clear plan to deliver those results. I’ve learned more about human psychology doing that than I have investing. In fact, the human psychology I learned through training has been very helpful with motivating coworkers and understanding investor psychology.
I played piano for an African Methodist Episcopal church…it was fun times (songs like “This little light of mine”, “Soon and very soon”, etc.) and I’m Latino so I didn’t quite fit in but funnest black people I ever met, good pay too. I also played drums at another (predominantly) black people church…same type of music.
^ I used to watch that every now and then. How was George Segal? He always struck me as someone who would actually be a decent guy in real life. I imagine Spade is a real jerk (no basis for that though other than my gut).
I had zero interaction with the talent. I was basically a gopher for the writer’s assistants, who where themselves gophers. But, by all accounts everyone was nice, even Spade. The only thing ever talked about regarding Spade was inexhaustible ability to date amazingly attractive women.
Had two interesting jobs - 1) Good humor man, and 2) Staff worker in a locked inpatient adolescent psych ward. During (1) Used to get offered amazing amounts of weed, speed, booze, etc… (and the pothead teens in one rch town were amazingly good customers - thanks to the munchies). For (2) saw some pretty outrageous acting out, and the staff used to do a lot of drinking after work (it was 2nd shift, so we got off at midnight and were all jazzed up from adrenaline some nights) to blow off steam afterwards.