Chapter 6 was about my pivot from fixed income trading to consumer research and data analytics, how I got the rug pulled out from under me, and how an unlikely path from working in suburbia and struggling with irrelevance eventually led to a career foothold in NYC. This chapter is about the next turning point as I entered my mid-twenties, a moment when I finally felt stable in my career yet grew restless almost immediately, hungry for something more. It was a year charged with ambition and frustration, filled with experiments in work, side quests, and identity. Alongside the career drama came a deeper exploration of where I came from, first uncovering Revolutionary-era lineage on my mother’s side, and then, months later, standing on the homestead of my father’s family in Ireland, and what these experiences suggested for my future.
Early Lessons in Consumer and Finance
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