After Paul graduated from what Americans would call high school (they call it 'secondary school' in Ireland), he traveled the world for a year and a half. He spent time in Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the United States. Now he mostly travels to other countries in Europe for work meetings. This travel happens about every other week for a few days at a time. You can imagine what his passport must look like!
Who loves money? Well, money is what Paul works with every day.
He works for Citi. You probably already guessed that Citi is a bank. Paul specifically works in the part of the bank that handles Foreign Exchange for corporate clients. This means he talks with really big companies like Google about changing currency (money) from one country to another. As you can imagine, large companies buy and sell things all over the world, so every time they go to do that, they have to change money. Just like when I came to Ireland, I had to change my money into euros so I could pay for things here. There is a lot that goes into this process of currency exchange for big companies.
I think the most interesting thing I learned is that all the different kinds of money are traded against the U.S. dollar. This means that when you go from one kind of money to another, you pretty much always use the U.S. dollar as the go-between currency. For example, if you start with euros in Ireland and you want to change them into the money used in Japan (called the Yen), you would trade your euros first into U.S. dollars and then trade those U.S. dollars into Yen. Make sense?
