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That's a great question. So I am in the energy space. So what? What incidents? And because it's all about serendipity and incidences that happened. What happens in your career? So I am statistical roll back in my student days, I came to the U S. To study masters in chemical engineering at Body University. My my world was locked for electric terrorists asses this management work in the pharmaceutical life. And then I had an interview with the energy company and the weak link waas risk management. So I come down, I have a conversation with them that waas in Houston and the head guy asks me. But it's a wholesale training organization and they give you a lot of people. And I didn't know all that. I come for the interview. I did my homework, but not as well as I should have. I guess so. One of the questions waas What does relativity a zit elects to their industry? I said, I'm not sure. And the guy was It was a senior most diabetics, like really. But when I said that the same Spider said I could rent trip against what it could be, so I just said. It's something related to standard deviation as you see it, a normal lifespan of standard deviation and then chuckled. So, he says, Even if you don't know, you want to take a shot at that is what got me my first job. It's one of those things. Okay, you may not work for everybody, but it could be a story. What talking about? So that brought me into the energy space. I kind of like that. The senior most guy was elected toe. Everybody interview the junior most person joining the team. I thought that was a good culture. And I tried to do that as I grow up in my organization. Still where I tried to make sure everybody in the Penis, I meet with them. So that was my first. That was one of my keys in ST John in the energy space. Then, you know, he just takes it over my own career. My story lines up with how gas prices in a natural gas places moved that the story is so there is a need, their ismea working on products. So that is how about career a shape almost to the point of today. So there was a peak time disfigure. Exactly 2006. There's a peak gas prices, so green became very, very popular green energy. So I stopped the work on green. At that point. Enter 2008. Hit gas prices dropped in the correct price is ruled the roost. Everybody's familiar with that. I was working in Canada tress management in the same organization. Then there was a failure of expansion in 2011. Toe 15. I waas doing marketing and sex in the energy space. Then I went, started the winch, it got on my own and it consulting for a couple of years. And that brought me to the current company where I was consulting. And they like me. Well, they offered me a full time on That was interesting and again more. Most of the jobs that take up I don't have experience in the job. It's just a possibility. But then you always look for bosses who believe in your talent, not in your experience. And as you start looking for those kind of people, you start to get invaded expedience, and by now have gone through all the motions except accounting against the energy space. So that's Western
so basically what I do, what does this job intense is very simple. It's operations off everything that is there from what you call making sure your bills are paid for the car counter parties when the second part is your windows, making sure the monster right all the way through toe, making sure we are forecasting cash flows correctly and then making sure actuals that are coming through are lining up to the forecast. So it's a finance job. Parents. That's the big picture that this water test I was depends on. Usually a month encloses longer hours than anything else. But that's about what you have on there. Yeah, you couldn't know. Everybody is looking from bitter cold, so that's my answer on that, OK?
this different jobs have different challenges. I just say I just want to make it a generally genetic question. Jobs. One of the typical challenges and jobs not necessarily on this job from every job. Typically, you always need to be on the lookout for people. By the time you really need a person, you're too late because it's a long so you could be a little bit proactive about who you want on. That is a very good challenge, any job you have, where we do. And that's where all the openings happen, where people with potential and they can do at a cute and people who are able to see, you know, break from the noise recipe, a drop off, reach out and talk to people. Those always standard that. So I got my job. Most of my jobs is with your hustle your way in and you get that. And so anybody is doing that. It may not be at that point in time, but you feel that the reader off people most of the 2nd 1 challenge is always an operational challenge off the pants. So if you have things like now, it could be a what you would call this a recessionary face in a sense of cash being a very hot commodity. So anything the letter forecast cash preservation would be a great one and typically the way I only say what is a challenge in a job, I would always say, Look at an income statement. It is either got rid of the revenue or it has countered with past. So those to define a gross margin and anything that Ellis would be everything below those much would be people had come Capitalization of past Exeter. Your one of your challenges is somewhere there. It's a good way to say OK.