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List of all jobs I’ve had in chronological order:

-Assistant MMA instructor (part time)

-Deli clerk

-Industrial automation intern

-College resident assistant (part-time)

-Forum administrator (part-time)

-Software intern*

-Electrical engineer*

-Equity analyst/blogger (part-time)

-Freelance finance writer (part-time)

-Lead electrical engineer*

-Engineering procurement/finance lead*

-Facility engineering/finance manager*

-Macro analyst / talking head

-Side gigs: board director, VC fund adviser, author

*These ones were all for the same aviation employer

When I was entering college, my initial goal was to work in space-related electronic systems or in solar energy systems. As I learned more about them and as the Great Recession hit, I ended up shifting into aviation kind of randomly, but liked it a lot for about a decade.

Out of all of the jobs, the most surprising to me was “talking head”. That was certainly never really part of my toolkit and just kind of happened somehow.
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nostrnaut 2y ago

what set you on the equity blogger/finance writer tangent?

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Lyn Alden 2y ago

When I was a kid I was into investing from the start. And I began my equity blog while I was a senior in college.

So the engineering and finance route was parallel from the beginning rather than a tangent.

And the more time went on, the more it became apparent that hands-on finance interested me more than hands-on engineering.

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nostrnaut 2y ago

“kid” and “investing” are so juxtaposed to me in my mind! 😄 but that’s fascinating. I am very fortunate to be in the position to eventually teach my (now 3 year old) son about bitcoin, it’s deflationary properties, and how it as a hard-money differs from the current financial system

I often wonder how totally radical his world will be compared to today

bitcoin will one day break away from the realm of NGU-investors, academic scholars, core developers, and miners/engineers, and will become just another tool the next generation can plug into their endeavours and passions

a whole new world awaits them