Mercenary Podcast

Download I am Matt Monihan. I am a software designer for a business intelligence company called RJMetrics. I’ve designed software that helps hundreds of businesses run more efficiently by visualizing their data. I spend my time trying to find the common threads among the businesses we serve, and propose software that will save minutes, sometimes hours of time. For most growing up, they choose an occupation from a list that their college advisor gives them without much research into what it’s like to be that person. I don’t just want to know what a person does every day, but what it feels like. To be known as a doctor, a plumber, a software designer, etc. Without realizing it, how our work reflects onto our view of ourselves has a major impact on our well-being. I’ve spent my life being fascinated by the most obscure ways that people spend their time and make a living. After 27 years, I still find people who make money in new and unexpected ways. There’s so much to learn. I know that there are some incredible