The Fall of Wall Street
Posted December 17th, 2008A few weeks ago, a buddy of mine asked me to explain what exactly happened on Wall Street. Not a lot of people know that in a former life, I was a bond trader. It was only for a couple of years and to be perfectly honest, I couldn’t take it. The environment was so shockingly void of morality and integrity that one day I came home from work, sat down in front of my computer to catch up on some email and immediately had a breakdown. My body had finally manifested all the awful feelings that were swirling around in my head and it scared the shit out of me. There’s nothing more terrifying than not being in control of a bad situation and when it’s your own body you can’t control, it’s just that much worse. Needless to say, I never went back.
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