Getting To Know The Wonderment That Is Me

[Rosebud]

Thanks for sharing, Indy... and for forgiving me when I come down on you too hard .

[Indy Coug]

Another alternative career path I almost took was back in 1996 with Stats, Inc., but they offered $26,000 to live and work in North Chicago with no health benefits. They are a much bigger, much more successful company now. They have all sorts of business relationships with media outlets, but the most noticeable one is if you watch the credits at the end of CBS college football and basketball broadcasts, they will be included there.

It would have been a dream job and I would have taken it if I was still single and without an infant daughter.

[wuapinmon]

Another alternative career path I almost took was back in 1996 with Stats, Inc., but they offered $26,000 to live and work in North Chicago with no health benefits. They are a much bigger, much more successful company now. They have all sorts of business relationships with media outlets, but the most noticeable one is if you watch the credits at the end of CBS college football and basketball broadcasts, they will be included there.

It would have been a dream job and I would have taken it if I was still single and without an infant daughter.

What would you have done for them?

[Indy Coug]

What would you have done for them?

I would have been a database programmer of some sort. They were founded by a couple of actuaries, so I think they had a soft spot for me. I wrote a paper at BYU my senior year where I developed some new composite measures for offensive production and pitcher performance borrowing from the basic framework of the pass efficiency statistic. I brought that with me to the interview and they at least acted as if it was interesting even if privately they thought it was dumb.

[wuapinmon]

I would have been a database programmer of some sort. They were founded by a couple of actuaries, so I think they had a soft spot for me. I wrote a paper at BYU my senior year where I developed some new composite measures for offensive production and pitcher performance borrowing from the basic framework of the pass efficiency statistic. I brought that with me to the interview and they at least acted as if it was interesting even if privately they thought it was dumb.

Well their job offer meant they were interested, even if not terribly, in what you could have done. Ever regret it?

[Indy Coug]

I'm a pragmatist. There's no way we could've financially made that work long enough to wait it out until I started actually making money with benefits, although getting in while the company was still fledgling probably would have resulted in it being a lucrative proposition now. It was too big of a risk to take with a wife and 18 month old, IMO. Hindsight doesn't change that.

In a vacuum, I wish I was working there right now.

[wuapinmon]

I'm a pragmatist. There's no way we could've financially made that work long enough to wait it out until I started actually making money with benefits, although getting in while the company was still fledgling probably would have resulted in it being a lucrative proposition now. It was too big of a risk to take with a wife and 18 month old, IMO. Hindsight doesn't change that.

In a vacuum, I wish I was working there right now.

Do you ever check their "Jobs" section of their webpage? I mean, is it not ever going to happen? They might remember you.

[Indy Coug]

Do you ever check their "Jobs" section of their webpage? I mean, is it not ever going to happen? They might remember you.

I approached them about 9 years ago about their opening as on-site support for FoxSports in SoCal, but that was a different job description and skill set than the first opening and that didn't go too far.

My job satisfaction was very low in the "early years" and things have since improved so I haven't considered a radical career change like that since. I did change my career 3 years ago to be a full-time programmer, but it still is within the life actuarial framework.

[FN Phat]

I'm a pragmatist. There's no way we could've financially made that work long enough to wait it out until I started actually making money with benefits, although getting in while the company was still fledgling probably would have resulted in it being a lucrative proposition now. It was too big of a risk to take with a wife and 18 month old, IMO. Hindsight doesn't change that.

In a vacuum, I wish I was working there right now.

I respect that decision and that time comes in most people's life.

[byu71]

Another alternative career path I almost took was back in 1996 with Stats, Inc., but they offered $26,000 to live and work in North Chicago with no health benefits. They are a much bigger, much more successful company now. They have all sorts of business relationships with media outlets, but the most noticeable one is if you watch the credits at the end of CBS college football and basketball broadcasts, they will be included there.

It would have been a dream job and I would have taken it if I was still single and without an infant daughter.

I decided to change jobs after 6 years out of MBA school. Actually after 3 years I left Price Waterhouse and went with one of the companies we audited as a division controller. After 3 years there I needed a change. It is 1977 and it came down to controller of a start up company in Silicon valley, can't remember the name so I don't know if it was Apple or someone who went belly up. Could have gone with Intel in the upper part of the Internal Audit department. A few years a go I figured the options I would have gotten for just signing on were worth about 15 million. Last choice was real estate in Utah County. Took the Utah County thing. The years it was good, best work I ever had enjoyment wise. Carter ruined it.

Sorry Indy, this should be about you not me. I should have done this on my Ellis Island thread.

[Indy Coug]

I decided to change jobs after 6 years out of MBA school. Actually after 3 years I left Price Waterhouse and went with one of the companies we audited as a division controller. After 3 years there I needed a change. It is 1977 and it came down to controller of a start up company in Silicon valley, can't remember the name so I don't know if it was Apple or someone who went belly up. Could have gone with Intel in the upper part of the Internal Audit department. A few years a go I figured the options I would have gotten for just signing on were worth about 15 million. Last choice was real estate in Utah County. Took the Utah County thing. The years it was good, best work I ever had enjoyment wise. Carter ruined it.

Sorry Indy, this should be about you not me. I should have done this on my Ellis Island thread.

If in doubt, always go with the job opening in Utah.

[byu71]

If in doubt, always go with the job opening in Utah.

LOL, it was very appealing. My little brother hadn't graduated yet and was making 3 times what I was. He suggested i come back and we start our own company. We did and had a blast for 3-4 years. Interest rates in the teens to 20's just killed the fun.

[Indy Coug]

[dut99002]

Carter ruined it.

My father's been a real estate broker for 35+ years and doesn't have a single positive thing to say about Jimmy Carter.

[Indy Coug]

I lied.