Stig Brodersen
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Podcast Appearances
Sorry for that metaphor.
Well, I think that's really a great question because it's definitely something that I've been thinking a lot about myself.
Otherwise, obviously, I wouldn't quit my job.
But I think it really relates back to Warren Buffett because Warren Buffett has
he's saying that he has this blank canvas and every time that he goes to work he feels like he's tap dancing because he can paint whatever he wants to paint on this canvas and i don't know how familiar you are with working like as a trader what they do but tell us about that tell us dig dive dive before you talk about warren buffett and how he inspired you to switch dig deep into what your life as a commodities trader looked like
You worked a lot of really long hours.
How long?
Yeah, well, basically, so this was a trading company and we were trading power.
So that was 24-7.
Well, obviously, I wasn't working 24-7 because you can't do that.
But the exchanges, they were never closed.
It's not like the stock market that's closed like eight hours a day.
They were on 24 hours.
So people would literally come into the office and then sleep and then get up the next morning and start working again.
So-
That's tough, and that's definitely not something for me.
Yeah.
So that was partly like a base salary and then you'll get a bonus.
And usually the bonus was more attractive than your base salary.
I guess that's how it is for most traders.