Can life get any better than that?

For sure and hands down, driving a D9T Caterpillar and prospecting for gold has got to be more fun than pencil pushing Wall Street numbers.

And if you’re in the wilds of Alaska, you better go cowboy style and side-strap a .50-caliber Smith & Wesson. You just might need some protection… from grizzlies.

Rick Sherlund gets a taste of both worlds each year - digging for Alaskan gold and managing some of those Wall Street numbers mentioned earlier.

Of course, the Wall Street gig is no small thing either. Mr. Sherlund apparently doesn’t do small…

He’s a managing director over technology stocks at Galleon Group, a $7 billion hedge fund in New York.

Sherlund has made a few bucks in his day and he knows how to spend them.

Every summer he takes off the suit and tie and heads up to Alaska where he can roll up his sleeves and go at it.

Part time gold panning isn’t exactly a phrase you’d use here. Sherlund and a few close family members and friends he invites each year have some serious equipment at their disposal. And they do find gold.

But in the end, it is part time. That New York job beckons him home eventually.

There’s the must watch video here, but for the full article about Sherlund, head over to The Wall Street Journal and read On Wall Street, A Gold Bug Goes Straight to the Source