Banking

People often ask me why I want to work in banking. My usual answer is something along the lines of this: "Well, I think the financial industry is interesting, and I think I would do well in it." While that is true, it is not the complete answer, nor even the main reason. If I were to answer fully I would say something along the lines of: "Well, most jobs within a bank is 9-5, so no late nights, no weekends, and there usually isn't work to be taken home since most of the information I would be working with is confidential customer information, and thus cannot leave the bank. Further, banks pay well, provide good benefits, and above average vacation days." I think it is clear why I can't give this answer, esspecially to my boss, or in interviews. It sounds awfully lazy, which makes sense since I am a fairly lazy kind of guy, which everyone who knows me already knows. Basically I am not a Type A personality

The Dilbert cartoon at the start of this blog reminded me of myself (except for the bowling part). It reminded me of all of the career advice that I have gotten in highschool and college and TV. "Do what you love", but the problem comes when what you love doesn't actually bring you any money, such as "not working". Many of you may have heard of my plans to retire at the age of 30. This of course will be difficult given that my 401k plan won't give me any money until I'm 65, and Social Security won't kick in until around then either. I know it sounds bad that I want to retire at the tender age of 30, but I don't think it is quite as bad as it sounds. Basically, I don't want to spend my life working for some corporation, large or small, or anybodies else's business. The obvious answer would be to start my own business, but there is a problem with that....it requires a lot of work, which, if you read the previous paragraph, just doesn't work for me. So what's my plan? Well, I haven't quite gotten it all worked out yet, but it will probably involve the State Lotto and me getting lucky.

I will use a quote from Steve Jobs to attempt to describe what I want to do with my life, "I want to put a ding in the universe."