{"id":405,"date":"2007-12-07T07:52:18","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T13:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/?p=405"},"modified":"2007-12-07T07:52:19","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T13:52:19","slug":"falling-into-a-great-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/archives\/405","title":{"rendered":"Falling into a Great Position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/cubelifeview.gif\" alt=\"cubeLifeView.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nothing is perfect. Period.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes we're lucky, and some times we make our own luck. Sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>I was just sitting here thinking how much I really enjoy the position I have today. I really do enjoy this industry, not that I'd have ever thought I would - from the outside looking in, but once in (thanks to a good friend) I have found it to be one of really interesting people, very challenging problems and more than enough variation to keep me interested for more than a decade now. Pretty lucky, I'd say.<\/p>\n<p>It's funny to me to see how the most <em>captivating<\/em> parts of this job are the ones that take me back to the work I did in grad school - numbers. Data. Lots of it. The market data is very interesting to me. Getting it from the provider, making it faster, better, easier to use - that's a <em>blast<\/em>. Getting it into a simulation\/analytic engine is also a ton of fun. Seeing all the numbers roll around from the market data all the way through the various systems  to show up finally at the client is a lot of fun. Number plumber - that's me. Kick in the pants.<\/p>\n<p>It's important to realize that after all the work I've done that has nothing to do with my degree, it's neat to realize that I really have come back to my 'roots'. I guess you gravitate to those things you really love doing. Sweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing is perfect. Period. Sometimes we&#8217;re lucky, and some times we make our own luck. Sometimes. I was just sitting here thinking how much I really enjoy the position I have today. I really do enjoy this industry, not that I&#8217;d have ever thought I would &#8211; from the outside looking in, but once in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cube-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}