QuestionerIf you were about to start all over again, what profession would you choose and why?
WarrenWell, I would choose what I do because, A, I have fun at it. I'm reasonably good at it. I meet a lot of interesting people through it. No heavy lifting. It fits me. But that's not advice for you. I mean, you have to find out what really, what's your passion in life? What's your passion in life? I was very lucky in that I found my passion early. I mean, that's not easy. You know, that takes some luck. It just so happened. My dad was in a business at a very small office, and he had a bunch of books down there. And when I would go down there on Saturday or after school, I would start reading those books, and it turned me on. And this was before Playboy actually existed. And so, you know, that was just plain lucky, you know. If he'd been a ministered, I'm not so sure I would have been quite as enthused about visiting the office. But that's the way to go. And I can't prescribe that for you. But I can tell you that if you're going through the motions in life, you're doing something. Now, obviously, if you need the job you have and you can't make a change and your kids have to eat and all of that, you deal with realities like that. But when you're in a position to make choices. You know, I always tell the kids that come visit me, I tell them, go to work for an organization you admire or an individual you admire. That means many of them become self-employed, but they, but the idea, you know, you can't get a bad result. I went to work for Ben Graham when I was 24. I only worked for him for less than two years, but I jumped out of bed every day in the morning. I was excited about what I was going to do. I was learning things. I was with a man I admired. I never asked my salary when I took that job. I moved to New York City and found out what my salary was when I got the check. So just be sure you, and be sure you get the right spouse. That's enormously important. You know, Charlie says the problem, you know, is that we talk about the fellow that spent 20 years looking for the perfect woman and then he found her and unfortunately she was looking for the perfect man, so you may have a problem in that respect. But it's an enormous. important who you marry. I mean, it's a huge, huge, huge decision. And, you know, if you're lucky in a couple of things like that, you're going to have a happy life.