You can add the wholesale insurance/reinsurance industry to it, particularly
the London market. You need a real strong liver to be an underwriter in that
business.
Nathan
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On Jan 5, 2010, at 5:06 PM, Charles Geilfuss wrote:
> I've never understood it, but certain professions seem cursed by heavy
> drug use ie. recording industry, entertainment and food service industry.
> The big players I can understand; lots of stress, travel, too much money and
> too much time; plus lots of enablers. But it also seems to heavily hit the
> working joes in these fields. Must be cultural.
>
> Charlie
>
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>>
>>> Most rock stars go through the wild booze-and-drugs phase, but then
>>> realize it's killing them and eventually sober up. At that point, they
>>> realize they feel better, play better. The ones I know are generally
>>> still a lot of fun to be around, but with the added attraction of not
>>> being whacked out on blow and whiskey.
>>>
>>
>> I was working in a recording studio one night (that's to prove that I
>> actually did) when the engineer and producer started doing a couple lines
>> they had cut onto the mixing desk.
>>
>> Needless to say, I went a little ballistic. First of all, I didn't touch
>> the
>> stuff, but secondly, that junk does wonders to electronics and I was
>> personally supervising over a hundred grand of gear in that room. I went
>> into insulting mode and basically told them that they were worthless pieces
>> of s*** and if they needed the drugs to do their job then they weren't any
>> good. I carved them open, filleted them and left them to the scavengers. I
>> kinda ruined their moment, so they put the stuff away and saved it for a
>> bathroom break. I can't control their behavior outside the room, but in the
>> room I had veto power and I used it. Neither one actually lasted long in
>> the
>> industry.
>>
>> Another time, at a BIG network production facility which produced multiple
>> top-rated shows (I'm not naming names, here), the drugs flowed like coffee.
>> At any given time, 2/3 of the people there had to be high. I kept my mouth
>> shut because the culture of the entire place showed that I was an outsider
>> and the equipment I was training people on and configuring was oned by the
>> network. What was incredible, though, was six months later, the
>> vegan-syndrome kicked in and when I returned, it was like a Baptist Social.
>> The "Granola Heads" ruled.
>>
>> AG
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