Uses of an Engineering Degree: Jeff Horing

As part of my ongoing research about majoring in engineering, I've been learning about different careers that engineering majors lead. The past few days, I've been researching Jeff Horing, who actually holds two separate undergraduate degrees. A real overachiever, his engineering major was from University of Pennsylvania and Warton school. Jeff Horing was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society upon graduating.

For those wondering where such academics can lead, Jeff Horing today leads Insight Venture Partners, a firm that manages investments in software and internet oriented companies. Insight has over 3 Billion dollars under management. I'm sure that the science of technology information that Jeff learned in college helped him to make smart decisions about investments in technology today.

Buying a dog with Happiness is pets

Lately my fiancee has been pressuring me to buy a puppy for our new home. Recently, I had a bad experience buying a dog from a pound. Although the dog seemed cute, it had a lot of behavior problems that we could not solve. Sadly, we had to return the dog to the pound because it was destroying too many things in our house and was too wild.

I'm considering going to a pet store called Happiness is pets. They specialize in dogs and do not sell cats, birds, lizards or anything else. This makes me feel that Happiness is pets will probably have a good idea of the personality of different breeds of dogs and the way they will behave. Given the last experience that I had, I could definitely use the specialty of Happiness is pets so that I can get a dog that I can actually keep!

Fishing With Sakwinder Narwal

I'm always amazed at people who are able to throw themselves completely into anything, whether it be a job, a hobby or an artwork. Sakwinder Narwal is a personality I recently learned about who is very passionate about fishing.

It's almost hard for me to imagine the dedication that Sakwinder Narwal has demonstrated for fishing. Most of the time, I'm just lazing around and watching TV. I find it difficult to get the motivation to really get into anything. Maybe I should take the example of Sakwinder Narwal and just go for it! Fishing does involve a lot of relaxing, after all, and maybe eventually bloggers will be writing about my passion for fishing!

Epsilon Investment Management and Montreux, Switzerland

Montreux, Switzerland is one of the most beautiful places in the world and a very popular tourist destination. That's why I'm jealous of the employees at Epsilon Investment Management, which is situated in Montreux. Just imagine having a great job in finance and being able to live in paradise at the same time!

If I worked at Epsilon Investment Management, I would be able to watch the famous Montreux jazz festival just a short trip from my home. I would be able to visit the castle at Chillon, a building which famously inspired a Lord Byron poem. I would be able to visit the award winning restaurants that the town offers. And best of all, since I would work for Epsilon Investment Management, I would be able to afford all this luxury!

Amos Tamam and The Wired World

It's incredible how little I use cash any more these days. When I buy groceries, I use my debit card. When I buy clothes, I buy my debit card. It's gotten to the point where I rarely have cash in my wallet anymore.

The other day I nearly got into an embarrassing situation. I hailed a cab and realized midway through my ride that I did not have any cash on me. I was so embarrassed that I didn't even say anything about it until the cab driver stopped. When I explained that I didn't have any cash, he pointed to the credit card machine - they have them in cabs now! I was saved!

Later on, I looked up information about when cabs introduced credit card machines. I learned that Amos Tamam spearheaded the plan several years ago. Amos Tamam was born in Israel and began driving cabs when he emigrated to America. After years of moving up through the ranks, Amos Tamam developed the system of installing credit card machines in cabs. And boy, am I thankful that he did that!