Has anyone ever wanted to be a weapons dealer/arms dealer

Imagine flying in your private jet to Monaco and meeting up with some Iraqis Africans Pakistanis and selling them the latest helicopters or weaponry.

Park your loot in Bank Lombard Odier in Switzerland and voila. Welcome to global kleptocracy.

Beats doing DCF on Excel.

Any takers for this life ? Warning: Interpol escalations possible in this line of work.

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I think it's still a grind, a lot of cold calling, sales, contracts, understanding legal parameters both domestic and across borders, etc.

You are comparing being a rainmaking war dog to a banking excel monkey. Try using a rainmaking banker for a more fair comparison, those guys aren't running DCFs, they are just making calls from their yacht in the French Riviera. 

 
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Did you just watch War Dogs or Lord of War? Lol. Their lives aren’t always glamorous at least for the dudes running illegal ammo (mostly), ghost guns nowadays, and just run of the mill ARs and AKs. It’s probably the equivalent of picturing being a BSD on the 100th floor of some famous NYC tower thinking you’re calling negotiating billion dollar deals, sipping whiskey, and watching the sunset every day in IB.

Even the nuclear dealers rarely have their shit together. Maybe on a big international level they’re actually ballers in Monaco (I have no exposure to that level of it). But I’d be doubtful

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