Either the tolerance level is low for the kids I meet…or I have forgotten how a 24 year old thinks. Most of them are confident of getting new ‘jobs’ or are not too worried about sitting at home waiting for a job. However I know of kids who have good jobs (my point of view) […]
The more I see other industries the more I am convinced that financial mis-selling is causing lesser damage than others. For example a person may end up buying a higher commission product..that is about the worst thing that can happen. I have heard horror stories from gynaecs about the kind of horror stories in their […]
So! You have a student loan, do you? So many kids – aged 23-26 today have a serious problem on their hands -they have a degree which is not bankable, they have a loan taken to get that degree, and they have no place to stay in a Metro! Vow! Welcome to the American lifestyle. […]
I have heard this statement from so many people – it hardly matters about the age of the person or the gender! Largely life is about being happy and successful. Each person has to decide what is being happy and what is being successful. Now success is a function of your job x the money […]
Sir for 50 marks can we do a project please? This is a question which is difficult to handle….but mostly one has to say yes…so I tell them stories of how cut n paste does not work. In Mr. Fali Nariman’s autobiography ‘Before Memory Fades’ he has given an instance of this… At a party […]
This is an old post…now reposted to be in tandem… One assignment that an MBA class likes (loves) is to do projects. It better be projects which are easy to do of course! One MBA class where I suggested that they go out meet IFAs and a few customers to find out how the investing […]
A few days back I did a story on what they do not teach at an MBA school…here is one more story. Happened to a CA friend – let us call him RJ. He was considered to be the ‘finance head’ of the business – but he was still a rookie and needless to say […]