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Greek illusions

Greece: Illusions no more II

• anjci
• on Friday, July 31st, 2009

I didn’t quite finish expressing myself on Greece in my first “Illusions no more” piece: https://anjci.com/greece-illusions-no-more/. Let this come as a (surely long-awaited) continuation. As the summer passes by, I...

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Monkey business

Monkey business: Random stuff I did at work

• anjci
• on Thursday, July 30th, 2009

Investment banking wasn’t all glamour, responsible tasks, business class flights, challenge, et al. Below are just a handful of outright mind-numbing tasks I performed to justify the fat bonus in...

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Swimming pool: Some unspoken rules

• anjci
• on Monday, June 22nd, 2009

The topic of this new note has been sitting in the back of my mind for a while. Many of you know that I am a keen swimmer, religiously covering...

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Eurovision 2009: Observations of a true fan

• anjci
• on Monday, May 18th, 2009

My mission is fulfilled. I went to Norway over the weekend past and threw all my strength into supporting Alexander Rybak on his way to Eurovision 2009 victory for Norway....

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Russian or Latvian? My identity crisis

• anjci
• on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

As many of you know, I typically present myself as a “Russian Latvian”. I was born in Latvia of Russian-speaking parents, of whom my mother is a pure-blooded Russian and...

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Anthem to the City’s real people

• anjci
• on Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Somehow I was never too good at befriending the cool people of investment banking. Many of my colleagues were jumping over their heads to hold the serving tray at lunches...

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Unemployed in London, or My worst ever interview

• anjci
• on Friday, May 8th, 2009

This post will be a nice continuation to that dodgy Athenian interview experience described in the previous one. The beginning of 2009 saw me seriously disappointed with job opportunities so...

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Job search in Athens: The truth revealed

• anjci
• on Thursday, May 7th, 2009

It was a crazy idea from the start. Here I was in mid 2008 – a 24-year-old female; two years of full-time investment banking experience and a handful of internships;...

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A story of a Portuguese “gentleman”, or how not to date a girl

• anjci
• on Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

We met on the Madrid – London flight two years ago. I was returning from a two-week backpacking tour of Morocco; he had just finished another routine business trip to...

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