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Greenman72 wrote:
^Is that all you got, Magician? Pshaw….Ali_Nili1987 wrote:
What would be the other unusual paths you took in the business world ? I kind of admire you dude
Went to Hacksaw State straight out of high school. Majored in psychology, because I knew I could solve all the world’s problems. Got disillusioned with college because I didn’t know what I wanted to do in life. So I joined the Marines.
Spent five years in the Marines doing NSA spy work. Went to college to finish my bachelor’s in Spanish during those five years. (Why Spanish? Simple. The Marines sent me to Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA, to learn Spanish. It’s an accredited institution, and it gave me 47 hours of Spanish. That was the quickest way to finish a Bachelor’s degree.)
Got out of the Marines and went to work as a mutual fund and insurance salesman Financial Advisor, selling products I didn’t understand to unwary fools enriching the lives of all people who sought my woundrous advice.
Got disillusioned with the industry because I was terrible at sales (mainly because I didn’t know shit from shineola), so I went back to school to get a Master’s in Finance. While in school, somebody mentioned, “Hey–you’ve got a lot of accounting there. You should think about doing two more classes and becoming a CPA.” So I took two more classes, took the CPA exam, and became a CPA.
A few years later, I’m working at a small tax CPA firm, hoping to become partner so I can transform it into a “total wealth advisory” firm, where we do tax, valuation, financial planning (including estate and retirement), investment management, etc.
S2000magician wrote:
I went from writing software to run numerical control systems (mills, lathes, punch presses, and so on) to writing software for navigation using GPS satellites and deep-ocean transponders (DOTs) to designing explosively formed penetrator warheads to writing software to control traffic cameras to analyzing mortgage backed securities (MBSs).
Does that count?
No.Greenman72 wrote:
^Is that all you got, Magician? Pshaw….Ali_Nili1987 wrote:What would be the other unusual paths you took in the business world ? I kind of admire you dude
Wow………u r no doubt a magician.S2000magician wrote:
No.Greenman72 wrote:
^Is that all you got, Magician? Pshaw….Ali_Nili1987 wrote:What would be the other unusual paths you took in the business world ? I kind of admire you dude
That’s all I have linearly from university to finance.
I didn’t include teaching university mathematics, working as a project risk manager at an aerospace company, teaching project risk management, cost management, quality management, problem solving and decision making, and cash flow analysis, consulting in project risk management, writing software to analyze investment portfolios and simulate bond markets, teaching review courses for the CFA exams, teaching financial mathematics and financial modeling in an international finance program, managing the Level III curriculum at a CFA prep provider, tutoring CFA candidates, developing a website for educating CFA candidates, and being a professional magician. This Fall I’ll add teaching university accounting.