Smart choice Sinds! ....good work...
I don't know about talented people at the largest investment bank in OZ....most of the people I have met there have very inflated egos and not much chop.........not the smartest people in my opinion.
Oh...now that you are in the open...watch out for envy...it manifests in many ways....your life will get more interesting...as more people find out about your success....the both of you are brave coming out in API. Being a investment bank you will be recognized as they will read API...more than say a tech company.........
Good on you for breaking out of the mold..
I don't know about talented people at the largest investment bank in OZ....most of the people I have met there have very inflated egos and not much chop.........not the smartest people in my opinion.
Oh...now that you are in the open...watch out for envy...it manifests in many ways....your life will get more interesting...as more people find out about your success....the both of you are brave coming out in API. Being a investment bank you will be recognized as they will read API...more than say a tech company.........
Good on you for breaking out of the mold..
Thanks MIW .
Actually I'm not sure if it's the IT profession? I've worked with some of the smartest and supposedly people with an entrepreneurial approach to getting results for an organisation that is quite hard to get into. Although people are very smart, I don't think many invest. I also think like all other corporate organisations, the message is to stay small, stay within your skin, don't challenge the status quo, don't be politically incorrect. All that did not sit well with me. I just cannot be politically incorrect. I wanted to break that mold. Fortunate for me, I found a good mentor outside work when I was a grad who I worked with for sometime to challenge my beliefs of having to stay small to keep others comfortable. Sorry, back to your thought, I don't think most of my colleagues in IT were that driven. They were driven from respect of doing well at work....while I feel, although with big corporate ambitions originally, I did ultimately realise that it wasn't something that would allow ME to drive my destiny. It may from a money perspective, however it's fairly disempowering to be relying on somebody else to give you a performance ranking and that whether you will get 'that' promotion or not Or you may miss it altogether as 'that' project you were counting on will no longer go ahead. It's really soul destroying, when you give it your ALL. I feel so much more empowered with real estate!
I'm yet to meet many who are into IP (may be a couple? but none in my old IT team..I'm in a Finance/Accounting space now in project management). Some are into shares though etc...I've only met one person in all this time at work (an ex-colleague who moved areas) whose always been very supportive and a sounding board and he doesn't come from an IT background. He did BA for some time as well.
So yeh, not sure if it's the profession? Perhaps it is? May be IT people can sift through numbers/analytics better? But so can accountants -- that's monalisa