cyrusm

I waited at least a week before I started spending my workdays on reddit...

You'll probably never get to this question, but I was just wondering how much time is put forth catching these monsters? You spend so much time traveling and researching, then you go out and catch fantastically unique specimen in crazy areas, the show's editing of course makes it look like you take very little time. I spend a whole weekend fishing in a stocked pond and I can't catch a single frickin trout. About how much time does it take you to get a show-worthy catch?

Also, my wife wants to do what you do for a living. and so do I. you are living the dream mate.

Housing in the Bay area sucks even if you ARE a full, well paid, engineer. I couldn't even imagine finding a place on an intern's budget!

Honestly, that's what most engineers do.

Source, I'm an engineer. The people who actually build the stuff generally hate me.

What I've heard is that he's an extremely difficult person to work for because he's very driven, very idealistic, and very "my way or the highway" in how he works. In a lot of respects he's like Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, a lot of people hate the guy, but you can't argue with his success!