- copy editor
- anti-trust economist
- “international development” (anti-poverty, microfinance)
- fair-trade certifier
- logistician
- bookie
- statistical data analyst
- (web) venture-capital business development / strategy
- assistant domain-specific language (DSL) programmer
- research potential new markets for industrial petroleum products
- novelist
- bank analyst
- government statistician
- (financial) trading assistant
- (oil rig) roughneck
- musician
- casino attendant
- distressed debt investor | liquidator | manage companies temporarily in receivership
- miner
- dockworker
- OTC derivative synthesiser
- computer engineer
- (oil-drilling) mud log analyst
- machine-learning quant
I cringe whenever an old person asks a young person “What do you want to do in life?” As if the answer could ever be simple. I’m sure I can’t remember everything I ever thought I might want to do but failed to. (And I’d guess it’s the same for most people.) Each of the above represents a potential alternative history now, and at the time, a superposition.
