Will Work for Food

My long vacation is coming to a creeping end and it's now time to find work. When I lost my job a year ago, I felt like I was given a new lease on life and the freedom to pursue whatever I wanted.

However, over the past few months, as my mind grinded on my next pursuits, I was humbly gripped by fears of taking two years off to go back to school and starting over in a completely new capacity (teaching) on blind faith alone. In my time of reflection, my firSSt revelation came from a friend who reminded me of the story of a farmer that found a frozen snake in the field. He took the snake into his home and nurtured it back to good health. As he picked up the snake to release it, the snake bit him. Perplexed, the farmer asked the snake why he bit him after he saved his life. The snake responded "I'm a snake, that's what I do."

While channeling my inner snake, I realized I'm a finance guy. Starting in the new year, my search for a job in finance will begin in earnest. However, I'd prefer to trade quality of life for stress/pursuit of riches. Here's my wishlist:

1. Job in finance department or strategic development area of a company (e.g., position reporting to CFO)
2. Institutional equity sales
3. Buyside analyst

I realize the search isn't going to be easy given the current employment situation. Thus, I'm taking a systematic approach:

1. Networking
2. Headhunters
3. Websites

I will keep you guy(s) updated on my progress.

Who's Going to Save the Savers?

What a difference a year makes. Or does it? Has anything really changed in our societal behavior patterns? What our economy needs in the long-term is some good old fashioned prudent saving but everything the government is doing encourages the opposite.

Consumption, speculation and greed. Feels like deja vu all over again. God save you if you decide to save -- he may be all you'll have left.