I used to work as a proofreader at Merrill Lynch.
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Merrill Lynch is this hugely prestigious brand.
First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.
I'm a good learner. I can dig in. I knew nothing about mark-to-market accounting when I started the 'Enron' film.
I got a job writing for a financial technology newsletter in Manhattan. I didn't even understand what I was writing about. The newsletter had, like, 2,000 subscribers, and it was $700 a year for a subscription.
I used to be a print reporter.
I've been a financial journalist for 30 years.
When I left Merrill Lynch, one of the things that upset me the most wasn't losing my job. It was not being able to see those people the following day. It was almost like divorcing 40 people.
I was in the equity-trading department at Merrill Lynch. I was there in 1987 when the market crashed.
I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader.
I'm a workaday writer.