Word: like
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...support of Mike and Conrad. This mainly consists of managing pieces of presentations, crunching numbers in Excel and producing visual depictions of data that are simple enough to be presented to the client. During the next two hours, Wang's job begins to look a lot like those of her friends in investment banking which she describes as a low-level information gathering exercise that consists of "sitting in front of a spreadsheet for 12 hours a day." Even with the daily doses of what could very well be called scut work, Wang feels that she is still able...
...through high school and part of college, I was a violist. It gave me a very important appreciation for many important styles of music. I really have listened to everything; the only thing I have not really listened to is anything that is purely mainstream. I seem to like things that are more underground...
...They have no idea what it's all about. They think that I'm playing weddings and bar mitzvahs and things like that...it's a far cry from that...
...college I was the singles buyer for Tower Records. I left Tower and was the rock buyer for HMV for four or five years, and then I had gigs as a record buyer for Boston Beat and Beat Nonstop--small record shops--but no office job or anything like that. It's always been in music...
...more difficult to find the equipment, like turntables, things like needles and slipmats that you need. I had to make my own slipmats and things like that; now there are specialty shops all over the city. As far as getting work, it was pretty much me schlepping around town giving any manager who would give me a minute tapes of me spinning. I happened to get lucky and get the gig at Axis right off the bat in 1990, which makes it about nine years that I have been here, which is pretty lucky. It's a pretty long...