next up, old press steel. why sps? because a buddy of mine from high school told me, listen, if you're in the gym, they were hiring like mad at sps. he said sps is paying good money. i had a job. back to the library, solid income, not much debt. it doubled not long after and i caught the bug for good. 23 years later, sps would be acquired by precision cast parts. so now i'm figuring it out. the best investment ideas do want come from these magazines. they come from what you know. when you meld that information with information from public sources, even if they are as late and as hard a source as taking a trip to the new york public library that's supposed to be working, that's good enough. now, i didn't like the random way i was making money. a friend from home with a lucky call available with jobs available, a hearty breakfast at bob evans farms, there has to be a more methodical way, don't you think? and then it hit me. look around at work. at the time i was covering mergers and acquisitions. profiling some deals tha