So, church doesn't start till 1pm, and it's kinda wonderful. I woke up and finished the Count of Monte Cristo, which I've been working on for a few days now. I read the abridged version when I was in 7th grade, but now I've finally managed to conquer the full version. I'm going back to the Aeneid, which I began in Paris, but haven't had the time to finish.
At work there's not a lot to tell. I go in from about 8 to 6 everyday, we get trained on the computers and in accounting, and go home. There will be an end of unit test next saturday, which will cover all we've studied. They are planning on showing the scores to all of the prospective groups (I'm already placed in a group, but they show everyone's to all of the groups, and the people who aren't placed get selected based on 1) how much the groups like them and 2) how well they did on this test), and they post the scores in the hallway to tell all of us how we did... Shoot! I'll probably spend some serious time next week getting ready; my Managing Director told me he expects me to score number one in the class, and I told him I would, so I've got to make good on my promise...
Life is good. I am meeting a lot of people, both at work and in the ward, and I am loving it! Until next time!
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Negligence
Okay, so I said I was going to start posting last week, but I was a bit negligent. The weekend was awesome. It turns out I was invited to DC to watch the fireworks with my sister (she is a director in the speech writing office for one Mr Bush) on the south lawn of said Bush's residence. I would show you pictures, but my cousin is the one with the camera. I even got to eat Blue Bell Ice Cream at George's place. He was nice enough to have a few shipped up from Texas for me. I had a great time down in DC, I got to meet a lot of people, and I made it to several other barbecues.
Well, I also hoped to make a post or two from work (I got assigned a cube and a computer today) but it turns out that the system has an internal firewall so that we cannot access foreign email or information services such as blogger. Yesterday, the first day, was a bit... dry... to say the least. I did get some sleep in, though, after having gone to sleep at 2:30am on Sunday night. The bad news is the sleep came during the global head of operations' discussion about goodness only knows what... (I wouldn't; I was asleep). The CIO wasn't much better, but Ray McGuire, the co-head of Global IB was pretty dynamic, engaging, and made fools of enough people to make us all laugh. We're not quite to Michael Lewis' crowd's level, but one of the guys who was present in that fateful analyst class spoke to us (for those who don't recall/know the history of Wall Street--if you don't care, skip to the next paragraph--Solomon Brothers was a really famous bond house in the 80's where Liar's Poker took place, which merged in the early 90's with Smith Barney, which was later acquired by Citigroup--hence, I work for the old Solomon Smith Barney, although Citi had since dispensed with the mouthful to give us "Citi Markets and Banking." There is still a Global Private Wealth Management business run by Citi called Smith Barney, which has an office in Salt Lake and quite a global reach, but it's kind of a different beast than the old SSB).
Well, life is good out here. It's fun. I've been meeting a bajillion people, and am trying my best to remember names.
Oh, and my first sacrifice for the cause will come this week. Someone had the bright idea that we need one more day of training, and it can't wait till Monday, so I have training scheduled for Saturday, from 8:30 am till 5 pm. I'm in the upper level accounting class, so thank goodness, because if not I'd have to go on Sunday. Phew!
Well, I also hoped to make a post or two from work (I got assigned a cube and a computer today) but it turns out that the system has an internal firewall so that we cannot access foreign email or information services such as blogger. Yesterday, the first day, was a bit... dry... to say the least. I did get some sleep in, though, after having gone to sleep at 2:30am on Sunday night. The bad news is the sleep came during the global head of operations' discussion about goodness only knows what... (I wouldn't; I was asleep). The CIO wasn't much better, but Ray McGuire, the co-head of Global IB was pretty dynamic, engaging, and made fools of enough people to make us all laugh. We're not quite to Michael Lewis' crowd's level, but one of the guys who was present in that fateful analyst class spoke to us (for those who don't recall/know the history of Wall Street--if you don't care, skip to the next paragraph--Solomon Brothers was a really famous bond house in the 80's where Liar's Poker took place, which merged in the early 90's with Smith Barney, which was later acquired by Citigroup--hence, I work for the old Solomon Smith Barney, although Citi had since dispensed with the mouthful to give us "Citi Markets and Banking." There is still a Global Private Wealth Management business run by Citi called Smith Barney, which has an office in Salt Lake and quite a global reach, but it's kind of a different beast than the old SSB).
Well, life is good out here. It's fun. I've been meeting a bajillion people, and am trying my best to remember names.
Oh, and my first sacrifice for the cause will come this week. Someone had the bright idea that we need one more day of training, and it can't wait till Monday, so I have training scheduled for Saturday, from 8:30 am till 5 pm. I'm in the upper level accounting class, so thank goodness, because if not I'd have to go on Sunday. Phew!
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