Tyler Tringas

Well, poorly paid, um, how it worked out.

But, um, yeah, I ended up just stumbling upon, I kind of combined the two.

I did this, um, study abroad internship program in college.

Um, the university of Florida where I went had this kind of thing where you could go to London and you could take an internship and, um,

And you could take classes.

And I just sort of loaded up and took like all credits of internships.

I basically just worked full time and got to keep my scholarship money.

And so I was in London and I found this startup consultancy called New Energy Finance.

They were like 20 to 30 people in London.

Um, and they were, you can think of them as like a, like a pure play, like McKenzie, you know, doing advisory services and data and all that sort of stuff, but totally focused on at the time, the like really young, but really rapidly growing clean tech market.

So when solar biofuels, carbon markets, that sort of thing.

Um, I just got an internship there, which turned out to be like my last ever job application of any sort.

Yeah, it was, well, yeah, I mean, it was questionable.

It was one of those things where it was in the time period where it was still okay to sort of have the idea of an unpaid internship as a decent sized company.

Literally a couple of years later, there was a sort of crackdown on that.

And like in retrospect, it was probably not like 100%.

The company has since been acquired by Bloomberg.

And so I think everything is cool.

But yeah, I mean, it was like, it was basically lunch money and I couldn't have done it basically, you know, where I was in life, especially in London, which was incredibly expensive without the kind of hack of keeping my scholarship going for it.

So that basically covered my cost of living.