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I wrote at nights, without much effect mainly because I hadn't the first clue what I should write about
我在晚上寫(xiě)作 沒(méi)有造成什么影響主要是因?yàn)槲也恢涝搶?xiě)哪些東西
One night, I was invited to a dinner where I sat next to the wife of a big shot at a giant Wall Street investment bank, called Salomon Brothers
一天晚上 我被邀請(qǐng)參加一個(gè)晚宴我身旁的女士是一個(gè)華爾街投資銀行的大佬的太太那家銀行叫做所羅門(mén)兄弟公司
She more or less forced her husband to give me a job
她基本上迫使她的丈夫給了我一份工作
I knew next to nothing about Salomon Brothers
我那時(shí)對(duì)所羅門(mén)兄弟公司根本一無(wú)所知
But Salomon Brothers happened to be where Wall Street was being reinvented into the place we have all come to know and love today
但所羅門(mén)兄弟公司恰好處在華爾街轉(zhuǎn)型的前線轉(zhuǎn)成那個(gè)如今我們都知道并愛(ài)的樣子
When I got there I was assigned, almost arbitrarily to the very best job and place to observe the growing madness they turned me into the house derivatives expert
當(dāng)我到了那家公司 我被幾乎隨機(jī)的分配到了一份最好的工作使我有機(jī)會(huì)觀察這滋長(zhǎng)中的瘋狂他們把我變成一個(gè)衍生產(chǎn)品的內(nèi)部專(zhuān)家
A year and a half later Salomon Brothers was handing me a check for hundreds of thousands of dollars to give advice about derivatives to professional investors
一年半以后 所羅門(mén)兄弟開(kāi)給我數(shù)十萬(wàn)美元的支票讓我給專(zhuān)業(yè)投資者提供有關(guān)衍生產(chǎn)品的咨詢(xún)
Now I had something to write about Salomon Brothers
現(xiàn)在 我有東西可寫(xiě)了 所羅門(mén)兄弟公司
Wall Street had become so unhinged that it was paying recent Princeton graduates who knew nothing about money small fortunes to pretend to be experts about money
華爾街已經(jīng)變得如此的精神錯(cuò)亂它會(huì)給普林斯頓一個(gè)對(duì)金錢(qián)一竅不通的新畢業(yè)生一大筆錢(qián)來(lái)假扮理財(cái)專(zhuān)家
I'd stumbled into my next senior thesis
我誤打誤撞找到了自己的下一部高級(jí)論文
I called up my father. I told him
我打給我爸爸
I was going to quit this job that now promised me millions of dollars to write a book for an advance of 40 grand
我告訴他我要辭掉這個(gè)百萬(wàn)美元的工作來(lái)寫(xiě)一本只有4萬(wàn)美元預(yù)付款的書(shū)
There was a long pause on the other end of the line
電話那邊沉默了很久
You might just want to think about that, he said
也許你該再考慮一下 他說(shuō)
Why? I asked
為什么？我問(wèn)
You could stay at Salomon Brothers 10 years, make your fortune and then write your books, he said
在所羅門(mén)兄弟公司再干10年 賺一大筆錢(qián)然后再寫(xiě)你的書(shū) 他說(shuō)
