Ken Rideout

And my brother, just to give context as to how I grew up, my brother was 11 months younger, growing up in the same environment, same exact conditions, and never graduated high school, never had a real job, career criminal, in and out of prison.

heroin addict the whole nine yards and he so he ended up getting sentenced there shortly after i stopped working there and i so i worked there for four years got out of college and moved to new york as a pharmaceutical sales rep for like six months but i was playing in a men's hockey league in um

in New York and met a guy who was working in finance on a trading desk and he got me a junior assistant trading job on a trading desk, like an institutional trading desk, like a real Wall Street trading desk.

And it was everything that I wanted to do.

It was aggressive.

It was like being in a sports locker room.

It was hyper competitive, but I was also getting like,

hazed essentially and bullied which is crazy because I was boxing for the New York Athletic Club I wasn't like someone you would think would be bullied or picked on and not that I was letting them but they were trying to do that and then eventually after a couple months working there I slapped someone in the face after just too much of the bullshit and they fired me and I was so naive I didn't realize we had competitors I didn't even I mean I was so happy they gave me two weeks severance I didn't know anything about anything I had never had a professional job I mean I

the pharmaceutical company, but I was like a remote sales rep out in the field.

Like I worked from my home and some of the industry traders heard what happened and they loved it.

Some of the traders were like, oh, this guy is crazy.

I want him to be my sales coverage at this, at a, you know, trading my sales coverage at a trading desk.

So the big Enron trader would call into the trading desk and be like, hey, buy me this, sell that.

And we would put these trades together and get like paid an exorbitant amount of money.

So after getting fired within two days, I had a job, I was making 40 grand.

I had a job making 80 grand the next Monday, which was crazy to me because that was like more money than I could ever imagine at the time.

This is in 1997 ish.

So I, my parents would had me when they were 19 and 20.

My mom was 19.

My dad was 20.