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To: energyplay who wrote (38756)	9/24/2003 3:08:16 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

Nah, it wouldn't have helped. I was too pennyless and uglier than I am today. Only difference that my wallet today make me a bit more handsome :-)

To: energyplay who wrote (38756)	9/24/2003 3:18:57 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

My friend's sons; one studying Metallurgy another Mining. He wonders if they will get a job one the leave school in about one and half years: My message to him: Have you had a look at commodities lately? Look to the macro economic environment and see how the script will play on. With China and Asia driving the market up, there will be a huge demand for commodities. There hasn't been investment in infrastructure on the last 20 years or so. That because most of the countries, sources of those commoddities, were, either, facing the demise of communism, and the third world countries facing the debt crisis. Just look to the last significant investments in infrastructure in Brazil: All made before 1980: Tubarao, Carajas and its ancillary rail and harbor. Remember the railway of the 1000 days? Never saw the light of the day. When Brazil entered the crisis' years all mining, and all the infrastructure underlying went down too!!! Now with the prospects of Asia shooting up riding in the coat tails of China, one should have an eye for all the investments in infrastructure that are going to be needed. If I was their father I would tell them to get any job, even if shitty job, get the pulse of the industry and do a night course in Business administration and try to get early in the game. Just tell them to keep away from girls!!! Girls a very accurate sense to discover the guys who're going to be successful and grab him by giving a nice you know what to hook him. Once my time come, that means before Luisa goes into school I will try to steer her into something that will provide some cool money and a nice life. I am already seeing she's gonna get into the work force by the time lots of 'veinhos' (oldies) will be going out. A massive amount of people -result of the baby boom- will, then, be going into retirement opening the way for the younger people. Me and you also will benefit: I and you keeping healthy, with a clear mind and on top of the new developments, technological or otherwise, we will make cool money too!! That because the first to be retired, will be the ones that rust early, have lost track of the technology and its changing paradigms and have lost the health and energy. The ones who haven't had these disadvantages, those will make money managing the younger coming into the work force. Now tell me if all that shit I read 30 years ago (remember?) didn't left me with the best brain in the business!! :-) Ossy