Greetings grapple fans! I'm back, and writing this in new fancy Firefox 2.0. So far so good. Anyways, I've decided that the company I work for, and the life I now lead is quite bizarre. Last night on BBC 1 news it was announced that a gang of investment banks are planning to set up their own trading platform to rival the London Stock Exchange. The LSE's fees are too high. What's strange is not only did I know this but I also agreed. I pay out around $1.3m in commission on trades done out of New York every month. My colleague pys out around the same amount of dollars on London trades but on far fewer trades. NY is better value. And I know this.
I also sent a mail to a mate of mine who works for a rival firm (yes, we do refer to it as The Firm, complete with Gene Hackman and Hal Holbrooke types) and he replied from his Blackberry. my first such encounter with those beautiful machines. Last time I saw him he'd just bought a particularly crap phone. Now I know why.
My friends are slowly leaving their youthful idealism behind in favour of cold hard cash. One wors for big law, one is in the process of joining Accenture having been rejected by Shell and I'm now in investment banking. We just need someone in Big Pharma to compete the set.
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