I have recently completed the first year with my current employer. Reading the letter from the HR congratulating me on passing my probation period, I could not help remembering a...
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...
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...
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...
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...