Category: London

Monkey business

Monkey business: Holiday battles

• anjci
• on Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Employees in the UK typically get a minimum of a 25-day annual leave. In normal industries, that is. In investment banking, 25 is a pure accounting entry. Taking holidays is...

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Monkey business

Monkey business: Routine in the jungle

• anjci
• on Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Besides business-as-usual interrupted by random activities I have already described (https://anjci.com/monkey-business-random-stuff-i-did-a-2/ and https://anjci.com/monkey-business-random-stuff-i-did-a/), my investment banking existence was defined by a number of important routines. It was perhaps that pressure...

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Monkey business

Monkey business: Random stuff I did at work II

• anjci
• on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

This post is a direct continuation of https://anjci.com/monkey-business-random-stuff-i-did-a-2/. Unfortunately, some truly grotesque experiences I had as an investment banker seem to have sunk very deep in my memory and refuse...

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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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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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Office life

So what has changed? First impressions from my new job

• anjci
• on Thursday, April 30th, 2009

I have been hearing this question continuously over the last few weeks. Formulated in numerous different ways, it basically reflects general public curiosity about how my life really has changed...

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One month in London (makes a hard man tumble…)

• anjci
• on Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

Yesterday I celebrated my first month in London. Nothing to match those Londoners in the Xth generation, but a notable personal milestone nevertheless. Had anyone hinted even two years ago...

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