My friend, Nancy, is one of the top economists in the world. When I say this to people, she jumps in and says that no, she is not. But then I point out that she worked at the headquarters of Bank of America in San Francisco, forecasting financial futures with other top economists.
Then she says she worked with top economists, but wasn’t one of them. Ha! As if these top thinkers would work with someone inferior, someone like myself, for example. Here’s how that would go:
I would walk
into the board room and within two minutes, one of them would leave to find
their boss.
“Why is there a
knucklehead in our meeting?” he would ask. “She brought in a pie chart.”
“What’s wrong
with a pie chart?” the boss would say.
The economist would sigh. “It’s a chart about actual pie. PIE!”
Now another economist would join the conversation. “There isn’t one place in this bank where that woman belongs. Okay, maybe in the vault, because she’d make each of the safe deposit boxes into a secret fairy house.”
And this is true; I would love to do that. Think of the fun surprise it would be for the owners who open them up!
Needless to
say, I would be sent on my way, but I would probably shout back, “Hey can I
deliver goodies for a mid-morning break?
I’m thinking cookies shaped like dollar signs, or pies that--” (I am yanked out the door) “Okay, I’m going,
I’m going.”
I can pretty
much promise you won’t get much financial advice in my Youtube videos. But you’ll
find hundreds of life hacks, and that’s worth something, right?
