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Old Feb 13, 2006, 6:10 am
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MetalDoggy
 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Edinburgh
Programs: BA Gold, Hilton Gold
Posts: 366
I'm afraid Finance is your best bet.

A lot of my friends who got "interesting" jobs (architecture, research scientist, journalism, advertising etc) are badly paid and miserable as they spend most of their time doing grunt work and never get let out. I do spend a fair amount of time in a dull office but I like my job.

And equally I spend a lot of time out of the office doing completely random things - e.g.

- seeing how a palm oil plantation works in Malaysia (they have owls!)
- Looking at housing in the Philippines (cheap!)
- Visiting electronics factories in Taiwan (that was dull actually)
- Meeting politicians in Indonesia (scary)
- Checking out models in Singapore (that was for someone's Christmas party as a favour)
- popping off to Beijing and Shanghai next month (just to check them out as I haven't been to China for four years)

I also have two homes and lots of flexibility over holidays which is nice.
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