I think that if I had written the book in the past decade, perhaps Bateman would have been working in Silicon Valley, living in Cupertino with excursions into San Francisco or down to Big Sur to the Post Ranch Inn and palling around with Zuckerberg and dining at the French Laundry, or lunching with Reed Hastings at Manresa in Los Gatos, wearing a Yeezy hoodie and teasing girls on Tinder. -- Bret Easton Ellis (2016)

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a...

An anecdote that I often tell as a joke, but is true: When I lived in San Francisco I worked in IT for a bank. I quickly learned that when people asked me what I did, it was safer to say "I'm in banking" than "I work in IT." This was even true not long after the Wells Fargo scandal, and in SF people would probably be most likely to assume I worked for them!

Say what you will about the banks, at least they're the evil people know, I guess.

I left banking to become a programmer because it was so smutty. FML my life.

:s/b/w/