She had noticed that after sixteen years at Citi, she was tired all the time and it wasn’t making her happy. That subjective sense of misery is often surprisingly unrelated to the physical or mental demands of the work. People get tired in banking not because of the hours, but because of how they feel emotionally about the work. Reading between the lines of Amy’s story gives some clues about what might have brought her to the point of disillusionment. Meanwhile …“Bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered”, as the Wall Street proverb has it.

Source: Forbes February 09, 2022 08:32 UTC