In 1981, with interest rates above 20%, I needed to change careers from a salesman for a home builder.
A local fuel distributorwhowas friends of those guys (and whom I knew pretty well) needed a manager for an expanding business.
In the interview, he asked me what I knew about the oil industry.
I told him I watched Dallas.
Little did I know how prescient I was. 3 months later I got dragged into federal court with him because of his shenanigans