Every morning, Thomas F. Shannon walks to his Park Avenue South office, two short blocks from his brownstone in Manhattan's tony Gramercy Park. Chances are, he will arrive at work on the late side―about 10:30 a.m.―and almost inevitably it's because he was out late at a bowling alley the night before. He wasn't bowling, though. Rather, amid nacho drippings and the clattering of bowling pins, he was surveying his $30 million empire. Shannon has come a long way since he graduated from the University of Virginia's Darden School of Graduate Business Administration in 1992 and watched his fellow graduates march off to high-paying consulting and investment-banking jobs on Wall Street. He took a different path―an unsexy gig at a Pennsylvania can factory. It was the only job he was offered.
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机译：每天早上，托马斯·香农（Thomas F. Shannon）步行到位于公园大道南的办公室，距离曼哈顿托尼格拉默西公园的褐砂石只有两个街区。很有可能，他将在晚上10:30左右到达工作地点，这几乎是不可避免的，因为他是前一天晚上在保龄球馆里迟到的。他没有打保龄球。相反，由于玉米片的滴落和保龄球的嗡嗡作响，他正在调查自己的3000万美元帝国。香农（Shannon）自1992年毕业于弗吉尼亚大学达顿商学院研究生院以来，已经走了很长一段路，目睹他的毕业生正朝着华尔街的高薪咨询和投资银行工作迈进。他走了一条不同的道路-在宾夕法尼亚州的罐头工厂里做一场性感的演出。这是他获得的唯一工作。
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