Monthly Archives: March 2008

I am a… cabbie / JPMorgan analyst – This week in New York – Time Out New York

http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/features/27288/i-am-a-cabbie-jpmorgan-analyst

I always knew I was going to drop out of my Ph.D. program in medieval history. I was very New York-focused: I felt out of place at Yale, torn away from where I should be. Academia had seemed like such a reach–a dream. Leaving was cataclysmic. The thing I really wanted to do was drive a cab. I’d always had a fascination with it.

Follow your dream, man.

Clever people &are easier to con& – Times Online

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3564520.ece

Doctors, architects, engineers and other white-collar professionals are being conned by e-mail fraudsters who lure them into contributing to fake ventures after taking their details from conference websites.

A report on e-mail scams indicates that the high-achieving professionals are frequently defrauded, contrary to the widely held belief that the poorly educated and financially desperate are most vulnerable.