{"id":585,"date":"2006-04-24T13:52:16","date_gmt":"2006-04-24T20:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp\/?p=585"},"modified":"2006-04-24T13:52:16","modified_gmt":"2006-04-24T20:52:16","slug":"a-day-in-the-life-of-an-analyst-wads-of-cash-fast-cars-and-jet-set-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/a-day-in-the-life-of-an-analyst-wads-of-cash-fast-cars-and-jet-set-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day In The Life Of An Analyst: wads of cash, fast cars, and jet-set travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In. My. Dreams.<\/p>\n<p>In RedMonk Radio Episode 8, guest host <a href=\"http:\/\/scottmark.blogspot.com\">Scott Mark<\/a> interviews <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monkchips.com\">me<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peopleoverprocess.com\">Cot\u00e9<\/a> about being an industry analyst. As we find out, it&#8217;s not all wads of cash, fast cars, and jet-set travel.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of people seem to think being an industry analyst is glamorous. It isn&#8217;t really. To be fair it wasn&#8217;t bad in the 1990s, but those times are gone for now. <\/p>\n<p>I travelled from London to Austin, TX on Wednesday last week, and back from Austin to London on Thursday. Cattle class all the way &#8211; except one two hour leg where I bumped myself up to business class at least partly so I had access to power&#8230; my Thinkpad now has a battery life of 30 minutes or so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But anyway &#8211; Thanks Scott Mark! We&#8217;ll work to get some more analysts to participate. Anyone interested do please let us know.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Tags: <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Scott+Mark\">Scott Mark<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Medtronic\">Medtronic<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Cote\">Cote<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/RedMonk+Radio\">RedMonk Radio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In. My. Dreams. In RedMonk Radio Episode 8, guest host Scott Mark interviews me and Cot\u00e9 about being an industry analyst. As we find out, it&#8217;s not all wads of cash, fast cars, and jet-set travel. A lot of people seem to think being an industry analyst is glamorous. It isn&#8217;t really. To be fair<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-9r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}