Jobs: Roman Stirsky, financier partner of private investment and insurance company

Our guest today is very unusual. He's one of those people to whom we turn when the budget does not converge or taxes begin to eat away our hard-won gains. The novel tells the story of his workplace and shares his thoughts about the meaning of life, which I personally found interesting and I advise you.

What do you do in your work?

I always wanted to do what he likes, and always written in their resume, what I wanted to do. During his six-year career, I had to work a financial and investment analyst in major investment companies, I had a few of their own businesses and investment projects, I even managed to work courier. As a result, I financier and one of the firm's partners "The European Private Investment and Insurance Company». Helps freelancers to optimize taxation; together with his colleagues, a lawyer who defended our clients in economic courts, dealing with economic part divorce cases and marriage contracts, engaged in lending and insurance of the agricultural sector of Ukraine, as well as lead transaction to purchase and sale of businesses. But I always confess the principle: the work you do, should be interesting and bring you pleasure, because at work we spend most of his adult life.

How does your workplace?

This laptop and connected to an optional 15 "monitor. Very convenient and practical, on the same screen can be positioned mail or financial statements, and Other current file with the financial model, which I transfer the necessary data and compares the results.

What hardware are using?

I use a laptop ASUS F3JR with 15 "monitor.
Processor Genuine Intel (R) CPU T2130 @ 1.86GHz.
Memory (RAM) 2,00 GB.
ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 graphics.
Screw 80 GB.
Enough with the head, because toys do not play.

What software use?

Since I have a normal laptop, then I use Windows, Windows 7 passed almost directly from its output, even participated in the annual free trial version from Microsoft. 7-ka is very different from the stable operation of their predecessors. I it is worth more than two years without having to reinstall, not buggy, does not slow down, works well and hibernate sleep, I can just close the laptop with the work of the day, not even saved, and to come in the morning, turn on and continue work. I can not restart Windows for several weeks and it works flawless.

In my work I use four main financier of programs (list in order of importance):
1. Excel. Without Excel no financier, investment or financial analyst. Excel for me it's like-digging stick for old person, without it anywhere. Excel for me - it is a means of persuasion, proof, exposure, vanquished :).
2. PowerPoint I need for a 15 minute presentation of my work in front of customers.
3. Word and Acrobat - help in the work.
By the way Office 2010 is the most stable over the past 2 years, I have Excel flew a couple of times, and then, without loss of special data.

post office. Corporate e-mail, we use the web interface, set up on Google servers. This is particularly indispensable in business trips, when everything is available online.

EMS / chat. It takes me about 50% share of Skype and Google Talk, and 50% talking on the mobile. Phone me the most that neither is an ordinary, Nokia N93i, as they say it is possible to chop nuts and tedious meetings and home video shoot. But when I try to talk once again not to irradiate the brain and is used as a headset is HandsFree, rather than Bluetooth, probably many felt that if you do not use a headset, then begins to burn or to warm ear during long conversations palm.

Browser. I use two browsers Firefox and IE. Corporate mail hanging on by IE, as Firefox uses for everything else. I usually open a lot of windows and tabs.

Clock. Yes, yes it is common clock at the bottom right of the screen. There is a rule 30 minutes :) All their affairs divide into 30 minute intervals and signs that have to do in the 30 minutes. If unable to do wrong or mean task or need to look for another solution. Complex projects and work is also divided into 30-minute intervals, so make possible a very effective work plan. This came from the experience and has been very effective. We did not even spend more than 30 minutes of the meeting that helped to improve the consumption of coffee meeting productivity and reduced as a consequence of nezasypaniya people at the meetings.

Is there a place in your paper work?

Yes, of course, but I love the nature. Paper is mainly used for contracts, receiving and sending faxes. Another very active use diaries, this is also a paper :)

Is there a dream configuration?

Yes, of course there is, but it may seem to most very simple and even meaningless. My dream - is to find a way to harmony with yourself and know it.
I will not tell you how to hack life, a lot has been said about it, and lifehacker.ru already published one of the most striking, in my opinion, the articles on this subject under the title "60 small steps to improve the lives of 100 days».

Upon reaching your dreams I governed by the following principles of life:
1. Striving for simplicity. The easier it is, for example, the financial model, the clearer it, and oddly enough, better reflects the diversity of the studied business. Ease of things and communicate with incredible force attracts an interesting circle of friends. Even Steve Jobs said that in their products, he sought to ease things.
2. Doing things you love. As I have said, we spend most of their lives at work. And when you do not enjoy it you have lost the meaning of your actions. I'm not in the business more successful than you. World statistics says that 8 out of 10 businesses burn through, and only two "shoot" that is checked on the personal clothing. But every one of my project, for which I was taken was very interesting to me, and even if he was unsuccessful, I often think of a lot of interesting points.
3. I try not to communicate with people who are interested in your work, it focuses on the question of how much you earn and whether you are interested in it. It is not important how much you earn, and the more important as you get pleasure from his past second. It may be objected, but the debt of the work I deal with the "powers that be", and in private conversations, they say that it is not in money happiness.
4. Staging grandfather online. You can not always pull the ears of unsuccessful projects from the financiers is such a thing as a "fixed loss", ie better to lose a specific amount than for a long time engaged in loss-making project and at the same time limiting themselves from other, possibly more successful projects.
5. Search for spiritual harmony in your every action. Here remember those moments in your life when you were happy, you would have been satisfied with the World, World smiled in response to you and your loved ones around you, charge your positives.

If I may, I would like to end the talk. The Dalai Lama was once asked what his most amazing. He said: "Man. Initially, he sacrifices his health in order to earn money. Then he spends money on the restoration of health. At the same time he is so worried about his future, that he had never enjoy the present. As a result, he does not live in neither the present nor the future. He lives as if they will never die, and dying regrets that did not live. "