John Summit on leaving accounting to become a DJ

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorJohn Summit, the DJ who used to be an accountant, sat down with Anthony Mason at Good Room in New York to explain why he left accounting, CBS News reports.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorHe was a certified public accountant at Ernst and Young.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorForbes says he'd saved twenty thousand dollars before he quit, which is a very thin cushion for a drop.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHe said it felt like he was living a double life.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorAccountant by day, DJ by weekend. I assume the expense reports were immaculate.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHere's the detail.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHe briefly took another accounting job and was reportedly let go after a few months, after turning up with bloodshot eyes from a weekend DJ shift.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFired for the exact thing that made him famous. That's a performance review nobody could appeal.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorLast year his shows grossed roughly twenty-two million dollars in tickets, Forbes says, and his first Experts Only festival sold more than fifty thousand.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFifty thousand people in one field. Somebody in a cubicle has to reconcile that.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe BBN Drama Index puts this at a four. He walked away from a spreadsheet, and the spreadsheet has not stopped sulking since.