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Brandon Gates
May 4, 2016, 6:57:21 PM5/4/16
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First thing to know about me is that I hate writing introductions. Second thing to know about me is that I only *think* I'm different from everyone else. Third thing to know about me is that it's tough to disabuse me of the notion that I'm the smartest guy in the room, especially when it's arguable that I'm not. Having lurked this group for a time, with the exception of Brian Howell, I clearly am not ... just don't tell anyone I said so -- it may crimp my style.
My educational background and work experience is somewhat ... eclectic. I started off as a biology major intending to go to med school, earning my room and board as a clinical lab tech. By a winding chain of causality and ... interesting ... choices, I ended up as a database jockey doing consulting work for Fortune 500 commercial real estate concerns. In between those endpoints I studied finance and accounting at Cal State Hayward while doing odd jobs such as inside sales rep / purchasing agent for electronics manufacturers. After five full years of college, I bailed out at the end of my junior year when my boss at a tract homebuilding company offered me a full-time salaried position for more than some newly-minted MBAs I knew were making.
So I don't know, call me a blue collar professional jack of all trades I suppose. It fits my Midwestern flyover state sensibilities even as I sojourn amongst the liberal elites of my spiritual and permanent physical home in Berkeley, CA.
I'm presently on sabbatical from the 80-hour weeks often required to sort out large property owners' general ledgers on deadline for them. In a vain attempt to keep my marvellous brain from completely atrophying, I've lately been taking advantage of my personal Hiatus by attempting to explain to contrarians why the so-called global warming Hiatus ... isn't:
http://climateconsensarian.blogspot.com/
I'd perhaps like to not be as snarky, disingenuous or boorish as many (most?) of my opponents in that particular arena. Unfortunately, I delight in online rhetorics as well as leading nitwits into tripping on their own shoelaces so much that I simply cannot pretend to be the sage, middle-aged statesman with some actual influence I'd like to be.
Well, there's always next decade.
I feel better being properly introduced and look forward to lurking less while having discussions with a sharper class of folks than I've become used to engaging over the past few years.
Cheers.
My educational background and work experience is somewhat ... eclectic. I started off as a biology major intending to go to med school, earning my room and board as a clinical lab tech. By a winding chain of causality and ... interesting ... choices, I ended up as a database jockey doing consulting work for Fortune 500 commercial real estate concerns. In between those endpoints I studied finance and accounting at Cal State Hayward while doing odd jobs such as inside sales rep / purchasing agent for electronics manufacturers. After five full years of college, I bailed out at the end of my junior year when my boss at a tract homebuilding company offered me a full-time salaried position for more than some newly-minted MBAs I knew were making.
So I don't know, call me a blue collar professional jack of all trades I suppose. It fits my Midwestern flyover state sensibilities even as I sojourn amongst the liberal elites of my spiritual and permanent physical home in Berkeley, CA.
I'm presently on sabbatical from the 80-hour weeks often required to sort out large property owners' general ledgers on deadline for them. In a vain attempt to keep my marvellous brain from completely atrophying, I've lately been taking advantage of my personal Hiatus by attempting to explain to contrarians why the so-called global warming Hiatus ... isn't:
http://climateconsensarian.blogspot.com/
I'd perhaps like to not be as snarky, disingenuous or boorish as many (most?) of my opponents in that particular arena. Unfortunately, I delight in online rhetorics as well as leading nitwits into tripping on their own shoelaces so much that I simply cannot pretend to be the sage, middle-aged statesman with some actual influence I'd like to be.
Well, there's always next decade.
I feel better being properly introduced and look forward to lurking less while having discussions with a sharper class of folks than I've become used to engaging over the past few years.
Cheers.
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