%%I guessed Ken's email address in the mid-nineties and sent him an email looking for him to back an etf/basket arbitrage system I was working on. We went back and forth a couple of times, he asked me to send him my resume so I could meet with his guys. I didn't send it. I didn't want to go work for someone else. The time I turned down a job at Goldman pre-IPO because they said I could not actively trade my own money is a close second in what were probably silly decisions.
You live and you learn.
EXACTLY\
but i doubt if you would ever really regret NOT working @ GS/ since you ''did not want to work for some one else''
And while you could have very well learned something @ GS \capital markets are so full of cash cows. GS is a notable position in SPY benchmark/ Vanguard 500/DIA/Vanguard TotalStoc....; but i got more out of a MS market maker+ MS is doing better YTD, than GS.
Some people are just NOT designed for working for some else; but that can be good also.
