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To: koan who wrote (128524)	12/6/2012 6:57:35 PM
From: Nicholas Thompson	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

I agree, I spent 16 years in business , 5 years in the military and 22 years in the Federal Government , about half of that overseas. The Govt employees were the best educated and smartest. The most bureaucratic were in the insurance company, the most bigoted in the bank, maybe the hardest working in the Stock brokerage. I was a part owner of a real estate company , the running of which overlapped for a couple of years with some govt and private sector work. The work which was the most interesting was the govt work , (foreign assistance) and I worked harder there than with the bank or the insurance company. I worked hardest with the brokerage as it was the 1960's and they were computerizing their systems and I did not know what i was doing half the time. I realize there are some really dull govt. jobs but i did not have one of those. I had one boss in the govt who had two PHD'd --Economics and Chemistry -- he was an exceptionally good decision maker as well as the nicest person. The bank, where I was running their small Foreign Investment division, to often leaned on a couple of top bosses and ended up in trouble . It finally was bought out by Wells Fargo. The Insurance co still exists and the Stock Brokerage grew and morphed into a successful firm.