[sbilstein]

a friend of mine went from working in oil extraction field engineering to being a patent agent. he does a lot of reviewing applications, finding prior art, and analysis of the inventions.

it’s interesting to him since he is always coming across curious inventions and applications but otherwise it seems like a pretty dead end career. he is particularly unambitious so i think the lack of pressure other than “review this stuff” is pretty nice for him.

I wouldn’t trade being a builder to be a paper pusher.