There isn't any folly a man won't contemplate if there's money or a woman at stake
What was a typical day like for a sales trader back in 2004?
The most interesting thing to me about the television show Billions is not Bobby Axelrod, who is an inherently unrelatable character, but his trader, Dollar Bill. This is because there are probably 20 Bobby Axelrods’ in the city, but twenty thousand Dollar Bill’s. www.occupyajobonwallstreet.com
Why on earth you’d let a former dictator’s secret policeman have the run of your office overnight while no one else was around, I couldn’t tell you...
I read somewhere that when guys like me talk about how New York “used to be better”, what we really mean is that we used to be younger. There’s some truth to that. But without a doubt one of the great blows to New York in the aughts was the reduction of the New York Stock Exchange Floor to a shadow of its former self. https://www.occupyajobonwallstreet.com/
Au Bar was what they used to call the downstairs club of Lavo on 58th Street. Yup, that place. https://www.occupyajobonwallstreet.com/
We re-recorded this for the 2nd episode of the animated series we are working on. The first episode can be found at www.occupyajobonwallstreet.com although it still needs a lot of work. Our second podcast series starts next week.
Season 2, which includes stories from the Spotted Pig, details how Iceland blew up the world economy, and includes many more Australian jokes, will be released soon.
The most valuable advice anyone ever gave me about Wall Street... and then my favorite Wall Street firing story. https://www.occupyajobonwallstreet.com/
boon·dog·gle /ˈbo͞onˌdäɡəl/ 1. to work or activity that is wasteful or pointless but gives the appearance of having value. 2. to waste money or time on unnecessary or questionable projects https://www.occupyajobonwallstreet.com/
It’s worth saying this stuff out loud just this once, because trading jobs like this barely exist anymore. But if you were a trader in the aughts you had one of the best seats in the world.
Wall Street is the last bastion of male dominance in an area where there’s no reason women can’t be just as successful as men. Now how on earth did we pull this off? Can it last?