If you had the chance of being a trader / broker / banker on Wall Street or in London, would you?
The good:
The money is excellent, £70,000 / year to start with, £100,000+ in quarterly bonuses after you've climbed up for a few years.
The money is really excellent, £millions.
The feeling of being smarter and more successful than everyone else in the room.
The bad:
You have to work 10+ hours a day, 7 days a week, for a few years in the beginning.
Yo have to work very hard.
You can very easily become unemployed, sometimes through no fault of your own. All investment banks lay off 5 to 20 % of their staff a year, and that was last year...
The ugly:
You are messing with other people's savings and pensions, just look at the subprime mortgage thing currently going.
The good:
The money is excellent, £70,000 / year to start with, £100,000+ in quarterly bonuses after you've climbed up for a few years.
The money is really excellent, £millions.
The feeling of being smarter and more successful than everyone else in the room.
The bad:
You have to work 10+ hours a day, 7 days a week, for a few years in the beginning.
Yo have to work very hard.
You can very easily become unemployed, sometimes through no fault of your own. All investment banks lay off 5 to 20 % of their staff a year, and that was last year...
The ugly:
You are messing with other people's savings and pensions, just look at the subprime mortgage thing currently going.
