I actualy like my job, I develop biodiesel projects, there is a lot of hurry up and wait. Some days it is really slow and other days I am like a one armed paper hanger. I have learned to let events unfold in their natural time frame, you just can't rush some stuff.
I like the analysis and the travel but hate rental cars, they always suck. I tried to rent a Disco once but it was like $200 per day, screw that. I get tired of people in airports that are going on vacation and something is delayed or lost and doesn't live up to their expectations and they make big scenes. That is why I am so glad to have finally earned platinum status from flying 35,000 miles last year. I don't have to wait in line next to the fat ass in the hawaiian shirt and his bitch wife while they tell the world about the injustice that they have suffered. Shut up!
I watch commodity prices all day every day and try to figure out what the petroleum and futures markets are doing. I despise wall street boys. They sit in an office in wherever and think they know everything about every business in the world.
Typical conference call starts with them telling me how many billions they have under management and then their short attention spans take over. Too much caffiene for them to follow anything more than a sound bite. They don't use whole sentences, everything is corportate lingo. If the average person whose pension fund is being invested by these guys knew the way that business gets done they would pull their funds out in a big fat hurry. Not that they are not competant, they just can't pay attention, it is like an ADD convention.
Wall Street firms are the greediest bastards on the planet. The first few times I heard the terms they offer I almost fell out of my chair. No wonder they make money hand over fist. "We'll put in 20% of the equity and take 80% of the project".
You talk for an hour explaining and answering questions, each of which confirms that they know even less about the subject at hand than you had thought. Then you get to the end of the call...yada yada, contact info, yada yada, be in touch. yada yada, circle back. It is exhausting.
On weekends I work on my trucks and occasionally other peoples trucks too. I leave my laptop at the office and try to forget where my cell phone is.
