How to leave investment banking
I passed my probation! (Sometimes I just wish it would be socially acceptable and not viewed as egotistical at all to have a 25-piece marching band complete with 15-person [...]
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Etiquette tips for meetings at work…or how to look engaged when you’re bored
Don’t you think meetings are like game day for the corporate warrior – the meeting room is the corporate’s court, their pitch, their domain. Like sportspeople, they [...]
This is a Career Limiting Move but I think all HR departments are incompetent
Looking back, I’m starting to realise that I’ve put quite a few years towards this potentially ill-guided dream of success in the corporate world – still thinking I [...]
Why eating blackberries is way better than using a Blackberry phone
I’ve just managed to eat eight punnets of blackberries. Yes eight. As a result I’m slipping in and out of a food coma and I think I can see Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka [...]
That time I was a dictator…erghm I mean Fire Warden
Awkward moment today when I was unknowingly elected Fire Warden for the Yellow Area on our floor. You see apart from the requisite training and fulfilling my duties of [...]
I did it! I quit investment banking and I’m free!
I had the weirdest dream last night. I woke up, got dressed for work and went to work, but when I arrived there, I was seated at a new seat, at a new desk, in a new [...]
My thoughts on getting older whilst at a boring luncheon
We had a (painful) “Analyst Lunch” today which basically is a lunch that they hold for analysts and directors after a whole bunch of juniors leave, thereby loading you up [...]
Some of the best ways to quit your job
So the more and more I talk to other analysts about work, it really hits me that no one, not one single person likes being there. Its pretty amazing when you think about it. [...]
Investment banking bonuses and following that yellow brick road
Its Bonus Time and I can’t stop singing in my head “its the most wonderful time of the year” like Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone 2 when he gets to spend the day in the [...]
That moment when you spend too much time in Excel
I’m currently modelling to distract myself from having just witnessed the grossest thing I’ve ever seen at work – I just saw one of the oldest, sleaziest, tannest, [...]
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