This isn’t by any stretch of the imagination a new topic but I'm still baffled by it so please indulge me.
Why on earth would a graduate or school leaver choose banking or accountancy etc over broking as a career? They’ve presumably made the decision that they are going to go for some kind of career in finance so why choose the dullest and ignore what could be the most interesting?
As I say, this isn’t a new question but it really struck me last night. I was at an industry dinner and found myself sitting next to a broker who had been in the business for a good number of years.
We were just chatting away about the usual stuff that gets discussed at these kind of do's and he casually mentioned that he had spent a lot of time in Iran ... Read on
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