Times sure are different now from a financial stand point. It seems the economy this great country was structured upon was just a huge game of hot potato. Thing is, it seems that most everyone is now left standing with scalded hands and broken potatoes at their feet. I remember hearing the term “good debt” and thinking, now there’s an oxymoron if I’ve ever heard one. Life was so much more enjoyable when AIDS and not foreclosures was the epidemic at hand.
It was fun while it lasted but now it seems some desperate measures are being met. They say desperate people do desperate things and what could be more desperate than a buy side trader having to accept a job as a salesman on the sell side. I know of 3 that have regressed into this pitiful role. I equate it to being a 1000 pound blue fin tuna crushing a bait ball in the open ocean one second only to be served up with a wad of wasabi and some soy sauce the next. Executive chef to dishwasher must be equally as humbling.
I am not saying that I feel any remorse or pity for these now babbling hacks that went from standing on pedestals to kneeling beneath them. I honestly wish nothing but torment upon them. I hope every company car they order comes late, that their customers forget their names after a 2 grand night out and that their sporting event seats are all nosebleeds. May they be the ones that have to order exotics with pockets full of narcotics while the limo driver pencils them down for $ 300 in waiting-time. If there is any justice in the world they’ll see 400,000 shares trade away and have the thin stock they just shorted to their account rip 4 points in their faces while being told they need to catch up with volume. Then and only then after a horrific day playing for the other team do I yearn for their car to veer off the road, crash and erupt into a fire ball of flames as it cascades off the side of some bridge in southern Connecticut. Welcome to the hell which is my world you omnipotent d-bag. Unless of course you have a possible opportunity lined up at some start up hedge in which case we should go grab a drink sometime…
-Gambler
