Occasionally I'll meet someone and ask them what they do and they say, "oh, I work in finance."
A few times I've really tried to drag it out of them with questions like, "when you get in to the office in the morning, do you open Excel? Mathematica? Like, what is the most rudimentary explanation of your job?" Never has this worked.
What questions should I be asking strangers who work in finance to understand what they're up to? (I'm an architect who draws shapes on a computer and writes emails.)
Thanks - love the newsletter, it's the best thing I've found to understand what "finance" is.
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Occasionally I'll meet someone and ask them what they do and they say, "oh, I work in finance."
A few times I've really tried to drag it out of them with questions like, "when you get in to the office in the morning, do you open Excel? Mathematica? Like, what is the most rudimentary explanation of your job?" Never has this worked.
What questions should I be asking strangers who work in finance to understand what they're up to? (I'm an architect who draws shapes on a computer and writes emails.)
Thanks - love the newsletter, it's the best thing I've found to understand what "finance" is.
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