Quote by George Saunders

I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.

I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer.

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The quote reflects the experiences of an individual who began their career as an engineer but later undertook various unconventional jobs. These diverse experiences have led them to question the principles of capitalism and view society through a more skeptical lens. The implication is that encounters with different job roles have prompted a critical assessment of the prevailing economic system and its impact on society as a whole.

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