Sunday, 10 April 2011

torn ... trading or SaoPaulo for mah next adventure ?

Yeah so the TOK-NYC move will be hard to beat!
but its time to start planning ahead for the next move.

Getting old: 30 in october, so my chance to hit it big has to happen soon.
NYC is perfectly aggressive, and it looks like I need to step up the game here: the right time and situation. So anyhoo, I shd be done travelling the Americas in 1.5yrs and the macro in UK is not getting any better soon: time to either do another working holiday(like Tokyo and NYC) or start focusing on career: Need to stop moving sideways like I have been for 12yrs.
There's a middle office job waiting in Sao Paulo at the end of my time in NYC with Lucas' EM boys(I have to keep the current job til nov11 atleast to avoid paying back abt. $20,000 in relocation costs back to Deutsche. On the other hand, all the cleanup work I'm doing here is getting a lot of attention from the desk: I seem to be part of all exotic and vol discussions they wanna discuss even though I'm in vanilla swaps lol. A few big hitters have left, so a few spaces going: even tradecapture people seem to think they can hit the desk in a few months lol. Shame is my situation wont change when i do turn 30, but atleast I'll have something concrete sorted by then. Time to decide on what that will be from now.
Middle Office in Brazil with chance to move into trading, or move into trading now? ... dunnooo!
Either way though, "this time next year Rodders, we'll be millionaires" heehee.

1 comment:

Jen said...

i can see why it is such a tough decision!!! Let me know how it goes but meanwhile, see you in NYC in May!! :)

P.S. I am bookmarking your blog!! :)

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