Past Midway Ramblings on Business & Life

AuthorAndy Jones

November 22, 2018

The Farm to Bear

By Andy Jones
In Background
November 22, 2018
22November

I worked on the 44th floor in the tallest building in London as an investment banker for the now-defunct Bear Stearns. It was 2001. I was 29 and making money in excess of my contribution, feeling like I was on my way to professional and financial success. Not as a Master of the Universe, but to an early retirement. Although the hours at Bear Stearns were long, the work was engaging, and the...

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November 21, 2018

Entrepreneur vs Employee

By Andy Jones
In Entrepreneurship
November 21, 2018
21November

Employees Employees sacrifice personal freedom and upside potential for more predictable income – or at least a mirage of it. The employee must balance this internal desire for stability and a slow-but-generally-upward career progression against the nagging what-if questions we ask ourselves as we begin to see life in the rear-view mirror and evaluate the decisions of our youth. What if I had...

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