I'm very suspicious about job openings which say "CA/MBA". I get the feeling they are looking for fighters only, with not much requirement for much intelligence on the job.

Wish I'd read this two years back

Earlier today, I had written that bosses are unlikely to trust employees who they think have the option of easily quitting their jobs. I had made the point back then that you shouldn't take a job for which you are over-qualified.

Thinking about it, it strikes me that if you are versatile, you face a similar kind of problem. Suppose you have the ( Read more... )

From The Logic of Life - "your option to escape means you cannot be relied upon ( Read more... )

was to resign from ATK without a plan in hand. No, i'm talking about another job. That would've taken too long and I couldn't undergo more days of brain-death. I'm just talking about a plan. "Now that I've resigned, what next?"  types. It could've been just about anything. I was like "ok i'm resigning now i'll do a lot of cool things". And I didn't ( Read more... )

Culprits leading to the sub-prime crisis
1. Mortgage firms, for doling out mortgages to anyone and everyone. Just to "meet targets". Without realizing that they are giving loans and not doles.

2. Credit rating agencies - for randomly giving high ratings to mortgage-based CDOs, without really bothering to find out what was underlying. The structures ( Read more... )

some colleague in my office asked "so how is the new project? liking it ( Read more... )

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My recent post on studs and fighters was generally well-received. However, there were a few issues that people raised regarding the framework. Some of them were

• Stud and fighter are not mutually exclusive - some people are both
  
• You can't categorize those that are not stud or fighter as losers
• All studs are not similar, and all fighters are also not ( Read more... )

Yesterday, in a bid to understand why exactly I didn't like my investment banking job at JP Morgan and subsequently rejected their full time offer, I started going through my blog archives of april-june 2005. I knew I had written extensively about my frustration at the job, and thought going through these archives might provide some answers.

Two and ( Read more... )