Какими способами вы стараетесь узнавать все новое? Читаете книги? Ходите в кино? Посещаете театральные представления? Заходите в Интернет с целью выудить как можно больше интересующей вас информации?

Автор и действующее лицо сегодняшнего сочинения всегда предпочитал путешествовать по миру, но не праздно и бесцельно - таким оказался профессиональный путь Джея, открывший двери новым увлечениям и познакомивший его с интересными и яркими людьми, которым довелось многое испытать в этой жизни.

Jay Glaubach

Since graduating from college I have played various roles in various places, including a law student in Boston, a schoolteacher in northern Spain, and an investment banker in New York, London, and Frankfurt.

Although it would be impossible to collapse these experiences into a single representative day, I can paint my daily experience with broader strokes. Every day I learned something. Every day I met new people. For these reasons, every day was a challenge.

Every day I learned something new. In Frankfurt I took daily German lessons before work. In New York I learned accounting and corporate valuation on the job. In law school I am learning how to analyze judicial decisions and the policies behind them. Despite the diversity of the past few years, every day has comprised a learning experience.


Every day I interacted with new people from diverse backgrounds. In investment banking I worked with management teams from all over the world, including England, Italy, Finland, and Japan.

I argued the merits of the matadors with Spaniards at the bullfights in Madrid. I had dinner with the grandfather of my best friend in Germany, who lived under Hitler's troops in Frankfurt and Khrushchev's in East Berlin. Every day was typified by a unique interaction, however small, with someone who widened my perspective on the world.

Due to these elements, every day has been a challenge. Meeting new people, whether they were clients, coworkers, or classmates, has compelled me to try to understand their distinct viewpoints. Adjusting to new cultural and professional environments has consistently challenged me to readjust my outlook, and staggered me with how much I have yet to learn. My representative day has been alternately frustrating and enrapturing. It has been educational, humbling, enthralling, and demanding. But it has never been boring.

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