But after spending half my life interviewing directors, I've lost count of the number who dislike flying.
"I had this dream job, but I didn't want to spend my life interviewing 22-year-olds," he said.
"I went around the country for literally a month of my life interviewing these companies and just talking about organizational growth, emerging technologies, marketing," he says at Obama's campaign headquarters in Chicago.
For two years, he immersed himself in family life, interviewing his parents, siblings and other relatives - but in particular his mother, who, among other things, endured domestic violence in the early years of her husband's diagnosis.
How can you have beaches and not an ocean?" To read more about this fascinating "Satire Imitating Life" interview, please click here.
In the Outdoor Life interview, he elaborated, saying that a human being is "still one of the most vulnerable creatures on earth," barraged by disease, disaster and criminality.
The Outdoor Life interview — at times an exercise in mutual back-slapping — is not likely to have much impact, especially since it was released the same day as a much-anticipated news conference by Mr. Medvedev.
It was just a part of my life" (interview 59).
QoL was measured with the brief version of Lehman's Quality of Life Interview.
Longitudinal data collected in Switzerland, France and Belgium that goes beyond life interviews to look at practices and perceptions at several points during an individuals' life trajectory might support this hypothesis.
