PJ Vogt

And the job he got, not what you'd expect from a man staying up all night in clubs singing songs about arsonists and drug dealers and pimps. It wasn't the one I'd heard. He wasn't an IT guy at Goldman Sachs, but... Honestly, it was pretty close.

So you were working at American Express Financial Advisors while you were in Lyft or Polar?

So you were working at American Express Financial Advisors while you were in Lyft or Polar?

So you were working at American Express Financial Advisors while you were in Lyft or Polar?

A lot of people, faced with a job they don't love, survive just by living in their imaginations or looking forward to nights and weekends. Craig Finn, for whatever reason, decided the way he would thrive at American Express Financial Advisors was he would just apply himself to the job more deeply. He realized there were these tests he could take to climb up the corporate ladder.

A lot of people, faced with a job they don't love, survive just by living in their imaginations or looking forward to nights and weekends. Craig Finn, for whatever reason, decided the way he would thrive at American Express Financial Advisors was he would just apply himself to the job more deeply. He realized there were these tests he could take to climb up the corporate ladder.

A lot of people, faced with a job they don't love, survive just by living in their imaginations or looking forward to nights and weekends. Craig Finn, for whatever reason, decided the way he would thrive at American Express Financial Advisors was he would just apply himself to the job more deeply. He realized there were these tests he could take to climb up the corporate ladder.

Listening to Craig Finn talk about all this, I have a moment that feels like genuine disassociation. This person who I admire so much, his ability to tell stories, his ability to make music that has sustained me as a human. He's talking about his LinkedIn corporate accomplishments with such straightforward, normal pride.

Listening to Craig Finn talk about all this, I have a moment that feels like genuine disassociation. This person who I admire so much, his ability to tell stories, his ability to make music that has sustained me as a human. He's talking about his LinkedIn corporate accomplishments with such straightforward, normal pride.

Listening to Craig Finn talk about all this, I have a moment that feels like genuine disassociation. This person who I admire so much, his ability to tell stories, his ability to make music that has sustained me as a human. He's talking about his LinkedIn corporate accomplishments with such straightforward, normal pride.

It feels like we've slipped and fallen into some other multiverse where I'm now a hiring manager trying to figure out if Craig Finn would be a good fit synergy-wise for my team.

It feels like we've slipped and fallen into some other multiverse where I'm now a hiring manager trying to figure out if Craig Finn would be a good fit synergy-wise for my team.

It feels like we've slipped and fallen into some other multiverse where I'm now a hiring manager trying to figure out if Craig Finn would be a good fit synergy-wise for my team.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And so you're not... When you would go into work at your day job, was it like... It sounds like it felt fine. Like, it doesn't sound like it was like a life of quiet desperation. It was like an insurance policy that was supporting... Yeah, it was exactly that.

And so you're not... When you would go into work at your day job, was it like... It sounds like it felt fine. Like, it doesn't sound like it was like a life of quiet desperation. It was like an insurance policy that was supporting... Yeah, it was exactly that.

And so you're not... When you would go into work at your day job, was it like... It sounds like it felt fine. Like, it doesn't sound like it was like a life of quiet desperation. It was like an insurance policy that was supporting... Yeah, it was exactly that.

So just to remind you of the question I'd actually come here to answer, I'd wanted to know if Craig Finn liked his job as an indie rock star. It had never occurred to me to ask the much stranger question of, before he was an indie rock musician, did Craig Finn like his job working at American Express? But he had. He liked it fine.