Re: Questionable Query

[Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

You should watch the series "Billions".  If you haven't already.  :)

On Wed, Jun 5, 2024 at 3:27 PM James H. H. Lampert via RPG400-L <
rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Decades ago, before Touchtone, I was called in for a job interview with
> a software company I'd never heard of. On reading the materials I was
> given in the waiting room, I realized that they developed software for
> programmed stock trading.
>
>  From the first time I learned of the *existence* of programmed stock
> trading, I've held it in even lower regard than I hold *insider* stock
> trading. It is a purely parasitic activity, effectively stealing money
> from the corporations against which it is practiced, and from their
> shareholders.
>
> And so I decided right then and there to treat it as a "practice oral,"
> with the one difference being that I knew it wasn't for real, but the
> interviewer wouldn't.
>
> Eventually, after I felt that I'd learned enough to help me get a job I
> actually wanted, I told the interviewer what I thought of programmed
> stock trading, and that there was no amount of money they could possibly
> pay me, that would induce me to work for them, and walked out.
>
> I would not be surprised if that experience helped me, in some small
> way, to land my current job, the one I've held for about three decades now.
>
> --
> JHHL
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