Early Lessons, Humble Beginnings
Apartment Manager
"It affected me in a lot of ways," says Seely-Butler, who sold a successful financial planning business with $200 million in client assets in 2007 and now runs a divorce consulting business. In real estate, Seely-Butler recalls, she would meet potential renters, hear about their purported financial situation and then pore through their data from credit checks. What she learned, she says, is that few people describe their finances accurately.
Computer Programmer
A more consequential event: his decision to quit his first post-college job, the oone for which he had trained for years in school, at IBM, as a computer programmer.
Gift Wrapper
IRS Agent
Journalist
Lumberyard Worker
Their insistence on hard work played a role in how Montague chose to advise well-heeled clients who come to him seeking advice in structuring trusts for their offspring.