Quote from michaelscott:
The insurance company has its perks. There is almost no way to get fired once you have a job especially if your older then 40. You can simply walk in and stop doing your job for a few weeks and you wont get fired. I've seen it done where people wanted to get fired to collect unemployment. It took some 3 months for them to get the boot. Then there is the outright criminality at work like bid rigging and the like. Oh well.
This consequence of the biz breeds a bad work ethic, however. I enjoy working hard and challenging experiences. I like to use my mind. However, this type of work environment where no one does a good job and so many are involved in criminality encourages you to think a different way.
I do make trades at my desk which is another perk. No one seems to care what I am doing during the day or if I am getting my job done. I can get on stockcharts.com for analysis or Ameritrade to make my trades easily enough. Sometimes I feel like half my day is spent monitoring the stock market and the other half is spent actually doing my job.
I do plan on quitting the insurance game, but I would like to find something else to do on Pine St first instead of simply hitting the couch back at home. I've been aggressive, but have not gone to the extremes yet.
I work for one of the largest companies in the world. I just got off on the wrong floor of the building though when they were holding the job interviews, thats all.
As for transfering to another floor its difficult. Once you get stuck in the "ghetto" then its hard to move out. The "ghetto" being that mess of cubicles in that big room with papers flying all over the place and the smell of someone else's rotting food permeating the air. Once you are labeled as a ghetto guy then people look at you differently.
In the morning and the evening, there is a fleet of black cars downstairs. They are there to take the top dogs in and out of the building. Not only the top dogs, but the guys who work in the global investment group to and fro. The analysts whose pictures grace the website in suit and tie. As for myself, no black car, not yet.
Somehow my ability is being wasted in this environment. Quitting is not the most logical step just yet. . .
