Middle finger to my full time job

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Hey folks,

I have resigned my full time job at UBS and January 4, 2008 was ma last working day. Freedom at last, now i can concentrate and provide good service here. Nevertheless its a great feeling to work with one of the very big financial instituion of the world.

As i was busy in wrapping up things at office, there was a little delay in executing the orders here. Since im back now, all the orders would be executed asap and reports would be delivered. :):D
 


Grats kamesh, there's nothing better than working for yourself. Bosses suck.

Good luck!
 
UBS? I worked for them as a stockbroker back in the day. Er, rather, I worked at the old PaineWebber for five years, just about a decade before UBS took it over.

Crap I'm old. Anyway...

Congratulations, Kamesh, and best of luck going forward.
 
DelJean said:
UBS? I worked for them as a stockbroker back in the day. Er, rather, I worked at the old PaineWebber for five years, just about a decade before UBS took it over.

Crap I'm old. Anyway...

Congratulations, Kamesh, and best of luck going forward.
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paine webber ....oh yeah UBS took it over couple of years back. but a damn good company, i have seen the stamford trading floor its crazy......here it is

 
congrats mate, wishing u all the best. Great decision and I'm sure you can be more successful after middle fingering your job

God Bless :thumbsup:
 
damn that looks like a chicken egg farm. i'd go crazy after 1 week there.

good stuff kamesh, looks like i'm next now ;)
 
can you people not read? he did not say he worked there but that he as seen the floor and it is crazy or some such shit!
 
axxomarketing said:
wtf.. who wants to work in that kind of shit...
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It may look like an Office Space from hell cubicle farm, but trading floors at the big banks are actually pretty exciting -- very electric, fast-paced, no bullshit winner-takes-all cream-rises-to-the-top kinds of places. It's all about who has the the biggest balls (appetite for risk) paired with the best market instincts and quantitative skills to back it up.

I would say that 40-50% of the people in that pic (the full seniority traders) are pulling an average of 500k a year and working M-F 7:30am-6pm. The top 10-15% are clearing 7 figures, because consistently profitable traders are hard to come by.

If you got the skills & swagger and are fascinated by the markets, it's a pretty sweet gig. The downsides are that one or two big down years will put you on the curb, your life is dictated by the market, and you have to have nerves of steel and a high tolerance for ulcers.

No, I'm not a trader but I know many who are and have spent a fair amount of time on trading floors in a past life as a consultant to Wall St banks. It's definitely not my thing, but a lot of those guys LOVE LOVE LOVE their jobs and make bank at it.
 
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