in a year it's not necessarily wise because that time could be deployed in your life for sort of more beneficial outcomes i would say and i think i think that goes back to what you're saying too about how you know for some people investing is a calling if you will but you know it's okay if if that's not what you're passionate about and you know if you're passionate about home renovations or whatever or or whatever your field is that you have expertise in uh you know i think that's a good point and what about on the on the professional side you know if you have someone who's interested in working in the finance area uh what would be kind of some some pointers based on your own experience when people ask me sort of how to get a hedge fund type role i my idea really is i i think that they should just work out how to do something that's useful you know because a lot of people in fact it's sort of there's maybe a bit of a false narrative out there that sort of implies that people get lifted up by other people and they the idea is like how do you get chosen and i would argue that people don't really choose you to improve your life they bring you in to improve their life and i would just say that if you want to work really in any field just work out how you can add value you know if you if you're going to start a job if you think when you interview someone if one person comes in and they say i really want to work here because i'll learn all about what you do and i'll get to do it myself and if someone else comes in and they say well i'd like to really just help you do your job better you know i can add value here i'm good at excel i'm good at research i'm you know hard-working and and i can add value to you you kind of think well one guy wanted something from me like that i had to improve this person's life and the other person said that they would turn up and make my world easier this is a little bit more of an attractive proposition and so i kind of think that if you really want to like be a trader or you know um work for an active investment firm i think that you should research and then you can turn up to interviews and pitch your research and that's what always worked for me was because if you turn up to a job interview we'll say and you and someone and you're sort of discussing your cv and your qualifications the truth is it isn't necessarily going that well for you because you're having the same interview that everyone else has well if you turn up and you say i have an investment idea for you and suddenly you find yourself in this interview and instead of discussing sort of where you went to university and uh you know things like that you're saying well i think if we if you were to invest in this basket of stocks you would do this it would happen this way and and here's a dcf model i built or here's a quant model that i built or whatever it is you suddenly find yourself discussing the merits of your model or your approach to investing which is what you might be hired to do and so to a lot of my students i tell them like if
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