Little Fantasy

In my next life I’m going to focus all my energy on making money. I’ll go to business school and get straight A’s. I’ll get a job at Goldman Sachs and work my way up to vice-president. After I do that for a fews years, and accumulate untold wealth, I’ll change my name and go work as some anonymous staffer on Capitol Hill.

Yeah, that’s the career path I’m looking for in my next life. That makes perfect sense.

12 Comments

on August 18, 2011 at 7:50 pm

Don’t go to college, it’s a waste of money. My degree in Philosophy hasn’t earned me a dime.

Learn how to built relationships with people…that makes money!

on August 18, 2011 at 7:51 pm

And learn how to spell!
ejmw on August 18, 2011 at 8:09 pm

But I learned how to build relationships with people AT college. So now your comment leaves me confused 🙂
BooMan on August 18, 2011 at 8:39 pm

I hope you’re not taking this post literally.
- on August 18, 2011 at 8:42 pm
  
  I see sarcasm (doesn’t seem like quite the right word…irony…parody…you’re the writer) when I see it.
  
  But there will be a next life.
  - BooMan on August 18, 2011 at 10:41 pm
    
    Well, Liberty, you can call it tongue-in-cheek. How’s that?
    
    Now, my conservative friend, how do you feel about Darrell Issa’s decision to put a fox in the henhouse? That doesn’t stack up well to any standard of good governance I’ve ever seen articulated. Care to give it a try?
Teacher Toni on August 18, 2011 at 10:06 pm

Most philosophy majors become professors. Adjunct at best. Not much money in that. Maybe a poor initial choice?
- cruzy on August 18, 2011 at 10:40 pm
  
  Actually, philosophy majors do very well on the LSAT.
  
  http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com/legal_blog_watch/2009/09/choice-of-college-major-sways-lsat-score.
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  Some proof that a liberal arts major prepares you for all sorts of things.
  - BooMan on August 18, 2011 at 10:46 pm
    
    Hilarious that pre-law students do horribly on the LSATs. I’m a philosophy major who was told I’d make a great lawyer from like the age of 5.
    
    In any case, I’m still waiting to pull a Thales:
    
    Several anecdotes suggest that Thales was not solely a thinker; he was involved in business and politics. One story recounts that he bought all the olive presses in Miletus after predicting the weather and a good harvest for a particular year. Another version of this same story states that he bought options for the use of the presses not to become wealthy, but merely to demonstrate to his fellow Milesians that he could use his intelligence to enrich himself if he so desired, he simply considered philosophy more important. This can be considered the first known example of options trading.
    
    Actually, the traditional story is that some wiseacre asked him why, if he was so smart, he didn’t have any money. So, he made a fortune on olive oil and then went back to being a penniless philosopher. He’d made his point.