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dunno what i just read but i'm p sure your smokin the same thing im smokin

Nay. And lest anyone get any ideas, I come by it naturally...."What a terrible thing it is to have lost one's mind, [MRA] Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is." -DQ

dunno what i just read but i'm p sure your smokin the same thing im smokin

           I am not a shill and I put a lot of work into this. I am also not a troll. I post under another name but would prefer to keep the two separate. This is long, but I promise if you read, I will reward you with a few gems.

            I would like to reserve all rights to copyright and since I don’t see anything on here to the contrary, consider it done. All of this work is my own. © WorkofPiece

            I may be interested in collaboration/networking and I’m not sure also if this is the venue. I would also be interested in joining an exclusive club as is done in New York City or an artists’ “salon” club.

Here goes.

Image

·         Easy: professional teeth whitening

·         Health: (currently taking high-quality multivitamins, iron supplement, probiotic—still extremely exhausted, but under investigation)

·         Idealistic improvement project (if undertaken expensive and about 6 mo. time investment)

·         Skincare regiments as usual

Mind

·         Books: workbook on passing Prometric exams (geared to one of the following: management, IT, finance)

·         Mental math book forget title

·         Dreaming: 2 books on how to break into Private Equity or Hedge Funds with sample resumes, by Glocap author

Professional

·         Attempt HBXcore Certification

Ø  Cost: about 1K

Ø  Time commitment ~12 weeks and 3 hr standardized exam @ testing center

Ø  Can put on CV

And/or

·         Tuck Bridge Business Program (online if possible)

And/or

·         Some of kind of graded, for-credit, mathematics/financial modeling course geared
     toward pre-MBA, online

Ø  Cost: about $700

Ø  Time commitment: I think 12 weeks, offered biannually

Ø  (not really certain about going for MBA and I might have to prepare for this course, time commitment for that: (?)

·         Executive/Life Coach/Consultant (pricey)

·         Networking: Create Linkedin profile or personal website (learning curve)

·         Investment: Put 10K in Wavefront or Vanguard 3-fund portfolio

·         Meantime, I continue to apply for work that I am not especially interested in or suited for? (thoughts of funding personal improvement project)

Pet Project

         I made a visual, mockup book for a brief parody music video (for which I wrote lyrics) I thought I would someday like to commit to film.

            I would be producer, designer, actor and auteur.

            I investigated almost everything, including:

§  Acquiring unique, antique/avant-garde furniture items, venue, a few wardrobe and set items (use some of own for cred), videographer (a skilled relative-unknown, since for my first project, although I could collaborate, I would prefer to do it myself)

§  Whether my project could be budgeted (at least in part) by one of these film festival contests, usu. which offer 10K. At least one says I could retain full credit, but not sure scope of that

§  I created an ideal budget Excel spreadsheet to include all of the above items

§  Investigated/considered the current legal precedent surrounding parodies/fair use, see Campbell v. Acuff Rose (in re: 2 Live Crew parodying “Pretty Woman”)

§  The lyrics are very timely to a current musician, so not sure if would have the same impact if postponed, but it could be that the lyrics could be dropped and this is a “performance piece”

            If I do this, I prob. couldn’t also do my “self-improvement project”

            The objective would be to generate an independent screen-test, post on a personal website (NOT Youtube) and/or enter into film festival. Then, network with my old? acquaintances in the Arts and Entertainment industries.

            Also, unfortunately, a “perfect” piece of Antique furniture has already sold in the interim.

            I thought it out (handily) over a weekend and then continue to sit on it.

            Especially in light of this, that industry is not conducive to a career in finance where (my impression is) public image is highly edited, polished and kept out of the Media.

            With work it may or may not go anywhere/be entertaining.

            Similarly, I could put someone else in the role, but not as satisfying.

            Considered whether items would be resaleable or if this project would generate income (no idea?)

Personal projects

·         Subscribed to DeleteMe

·         Corresponded with Legal Department of Trulia/Zillow Group to remove data on home—considered hiring atty (Cost: ?)

·         Submitted 2 brief pitches to HuffPost

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People I admire

Would you be surprised if I told you that at least two, current, Major Label musicians aged ~30, career trajectories about ~10 years, have parents with successful careers in high finance or Media? It certainly helps, but the extent of which over time I’m not sure, and also not sure whether careers in Music Industry/Entertainment Industry/Arts and Finance/Media are mutually exclusive.

This is relevant to My Plan to Make (more) Money.

What follows may seem obvious but may give insight into how I work. I have observed that the people I admire most have some combination of the following qualities (perhaps later I will quantify this as parts of 100%)

·         Physical attractiveness/photogenicity/most importantly, desire to be and record of being photographed

·         “schmooze”

·         Talent –this is debatable in that,

I observe at least two kinds of Artists, those who have:

1.    Demonstrable talent for their Art and a combination of all of the above attractiveness, photogenicity, which perpetuates all of that, and to a lesser extent “entrepreneurship”/salesmanship, probably also flexibility and interest in pursuing new ideas while adapting Personal Vision; veritable coolhunters. Energy.

2.    The second, to my eye, is more skilled in attractiveness/photogenicity, self-promotion, coolhunting, energy, with average talent for their Art. Cultivates Artist personality.

This all again may seem obvious, but I wonder if most tastes (“markets”) are sensitive to the difference. If rated like bonds, I see #1 as being like AAA and #2 as being BBB+. More on this later.

Moreover, I have heard from those in the industry, especially Music, that there is little correlation between either of hard work and success, or talent and success. Sure, why would you say that is?

Beyond Artists, I have contemplated whether when networking, successes start with their home-grown network. However, networking so far has not exactly been my forte and I have always felt I do not want to be limited by those who have come before me.

A date asked me if I always did what my parents wanted me to do in life and I said, no, that I pretty much set my own path and pace, which I evaluate now as a lack of foresight, but they were also simply not those kind of parents.

If I were to select from a sample of those I could network with, I am fortunate to have pedigreed relatives with academic credentials.

·         A PhD in a hard science/intellectual property atty (think one of Economics, Physics, Chemistry), worked for a Nobel prize winner (interesting avenue and only recently discovered since this person is v. modest w.r.t. accomplishments)

·         An English major (one of HYP) who went to HLS

I would be lying if I said I always thought this way. I am fairly certain if I were to plumb my network I would find others not limited to academia.

I have heard of someone calling his people “pillars, since everything they do has been to prop me up.” LOL. Usually that attitude is viewed as arrogance, but a certain amount of success is attributable to putting blinders on to others’ unsolicited opinions. That’s probably just common sense. Still foresight and making use of connections early on might have saved me a lot of heartache.

The Particulars

As for my education, I did not attend a “Target” school (probably due to lack of foresight and luck) for which I will probably pay dearly. “Self-selection bias.”

I am 25-30 years old.

Female.

I dropped out of Professional School (think one of B-school, L-school, M-school) less than 0.5 years ago which I try not to regret (keeping with the habits of highly successful people) It worked for me in that it was a predetermined path, like a guild, but I'm not that easy.

Since then it would seem I accomplish a lot, but my energy seems to be limited. As such, I would like to rebrand, but I don’t know how much energy I have if it means carrying out prerequisites over time. Also I hear than an MBA (plausible) is really only done right if at a Top School and is not a means to an end.

Similarly, I am not sure I like sitting in a lecture hall. I’m not Cool Hand Luke (a certain amount of conformity can be expected from me), but I’m not Justin Bieber either and he got into HBS Class of 2017. (Though we may or may not share a birthday.)

Just some random facts for good measure. Continuing from above I do have a good institution in my history. I am certified in a foreign language at the B1 international standard. I once created a fine art portfolio for Art School.

I would say my weakness is probably that I drive myself too hard or that I am analytical, such that I could think paths through ad infinitum and never choose a single one. On the flip, I have been known to be impulsive in my decisions.

I am humbled to be in your company. P.S. I heart you

All of these things are basically good ideas but what you have to realize is the opportunity cost associated with each one. What I am missing here is a clear goal, most of these things seem to be geared towards many different objectives.

Things like HBXcore or any MBA/ Pre MBA courses are not really useful unless you already have a lot of industry experience within management or lower level executive work within your industry. You generally don't start in that end unless you have something lined up once you get out. There is no real short cut in this aspect of education, you either go for a MBA (and invest a lot of money into a proper one from a target school) or you stay out of it, taking these mini online courses won't really count for much.

In terms of networking that should be done at either a work level or a school level and there are plenty of opportunities to be bold. Approach the people in the industry/company you want to work in and ask them frankly for what you want and what you need to get there, such input is invaluable and having these people as contacts in the future will help you get a foot in. Side note; if you're investing 10k just put it into a low cost index etf, skip the bonds.

Can't really give you much feedback on the personal project front other then collaborating with others more familiar with the industry is probably something you definitely want to do, both for the contacts and for the experience. Being new to an industry can have it's advantages when you're the one in change of the project/company however there are many things that can and will go wrong with every project and having someone around that has been through many similar projects is extremely helpful in terms of avoiding the usual pitfalls and dealing in dealing with setbacks.

I can’t tell if you’re being facetious and I should take that as some well-intentioned compliment of my potential.

But for the sake of discussion: Off the top of my head I can think of Frank Abagnale (“Catch Me if You Can”) and Madoff only, for historical precedent, two guys I really want to think twice about seeing my name next to. (I think F.A. was not really a Ponzi-ist) Who was the OCD billionaire owner of the airline also played by Leo DiCaprio? Howard Hughes, thank you.

Interestingly, since your response, I saw a news item somewhere – I forget exactly, but it’s current. If I understand correctly, a man parlayed a fictitious stint with the OSS into a Government contract (Pay atteeention, “Chapo”!), and defrauded the Government and the IRS of a lot of money.

He is going to prison.

His position, it said, made him “more than $75,000” about which the article was purposefully vague. That has me, like, scratching my head, since that’s really not a whole lot of money considering the opportunity cost.

The tie-in here is that one of his first gigs, also if I understand correctly, was to convince his girlfriend that he needed money for a real estate investment and then to pocket the money. The article intimated that she brought suit – which is also how the feds were tipped off to his other activities – but was vague about that, too. And I always thought history was kind of “boring” personally but maybe not the hx of money and power.

Given all of that you might expect someone interesting and perhaps quite intelligent, but in terms of his background (I didn’t probe further than the article itself) he is neither. Notably, he had a couple of failed business attempts before his transgression, none of which I would consider pursuing.

As for Madoff, he was on my radar the other day, dawg. It would seem he comes up in the strangest of places – if you were to travel the elite circles. Of 20-30 year old artist/”socialites”, to be exact. Developer father was infected by Madoff. The father is extremely rich by my estimation and I do mean that and may or may not sit on some security industry board so since I do not know them, I’d really prefer NOT to discuss it further.

Was momentarily awestruck (side-struck?) by how he made his money.

Sketched out like this.

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An inheritance from his own father, who himself used his money from his Professional career to buy up a dept. store. (The Will if in probate might be delicious, you just never know.) Also went in with partner (key point here, Cadaver) –let’s call partner Business Partner #1—to buy and hold a dying skyscraper.

There was a curious trial about that incorporation the details of which, I really forget. It made them unpopular b/c they (as I understand it) made a very public bid on a very thirsty public institution, which eventually caved to their advances.

The trial made them a boatload from the sale of that property or they bought the rights to build on that parcel or from the publicity itself, I forget which.

The original incorporation begat the son’s corp.

The son continued in the same vein as father, as now, I guess, developer, but I’d be lying if I understood how any of that works. LOL. Except for a few in that brood, they strike me as boring, but like I said, I don’t know them, sits on board of security and that is probably quite strategic, too, no?

I also came upon by accident

The hx of a NY hospital but only really because the daughter-scion is also my age. Now here’s an interesting (if not eccentric) brood.

To me only because of how they made enough Benjamins to drive the renter’s out (and I may be editorializing a bit there) of a drop-dizz-ead gorgeous California Frank Lloyd Wright. (A home, as if you didn’t know.) I’m into that naturally, take note. They also tame lions for a living and marry up rich blue-bloods up the line – who as it happens were also turned by Madoff. She works as a psychiatrist presently – probably does not have to work – I can’t figure that one out either.

I don’t know them.

Oh, and Business Partner #1 (remember?) remarried a runway model, career into her nineties or something, both defrauded by Madoff, she outlived the husband, and told the press that as a result of Madoff, it was the second time she lost everything. Surviving if I am not mistaken.

LOL, people be so funny sometime, right, TPG?

All right, so that was insensitive to them. Maybe. Also seriously at this juncture I should probably say, hw first, TPG!

It is probably important to note in the interest of learning something here about the merits or not of Ponzi-scheming, Developer from before still maintains that Madoff and his father and Business Partner #1 were BFF, and their business relationship was mutually beneficial. Runway model corroborates. Huh? Is that tone deaf? (Your input here, Cadaver?) That is to say, after Madoff was imprisoned, dragged everybody through the press and blew the lid off Papà Ponzi.

LOOK I DON’T WANT TO BE A SOCIAL CHRONICLER (Can I put it on my CV, tho?) Shit, I didn’t even know I would find use to write about this myself. (Is that just awk?) I learned, above all else from my excursive activities, I would like to collect people – a people-collector, but I think I already do, cuz. I don’t really want to be seen as an Intellectual, either, I mean I might be better than that.

Meantime, I would be interested in hearing how you envision your above method works, VoV, (which I may have interpreted incorrectly as Ponzi-scheme, thus Madoff) but know that I am not really interested in running afoul of the law.

TL;DR:    Money/Time=More Money, I guess.

                Also to borrow a gem from my family crest as it were:

 If you are poor you crazy, if you’re rich you’re just eccentric. © on the crest and all that.

Stupid is a bitch, ain’t it, ya’ll?

I suppose I should now do like they do in the Biz and preface all that post factum with a caveat about how if any of this resembles any real people living or deceased – it’s a farce. Translation: You Tripping. LOL.

Cadaver, I will get to you and let’s chat more.

My thoughts for the moment:

Plan should probably look more like

1.   Job   2. Network   3. Gym  (I suspect that may help with the exhaustion, too.)

I’m curious about the book, “The 4 Hour Work Week”. Have you read?

Also, plan above is if I were thinking “practical”, which is – hard.

I don’t know where to start on my proposal and get frustrated that at the moment I CAN’T GET MY SHIT TOGETHER.

The film project (my film project) I am content to sit on –  yeah, it can probably wait.  From what I know of musicians, let’s work on album for ~10 years and then release on a Major Label; the trick is to make it look like it was overnight and a cinch. Of course after that, musician’s got to be really prolific, really fast.

                   But the point I am leading to is this: Artists save everything that merits saving, you know, like, without being a hoarder?

          I’m def. not a hoarder, but I think there is something to be learned from that. The thing I fear most is “boring”, followed probably by poverty, but mostly I delude myself into no concern.

There are also several people I admire and want to approach about collaboration, work, etc, but I just don’t feel I’m “finished” yet, hm?