Experienced MIT Grad For Hire
Just as I was motivated to a start my blog www.oracleofny.com to keep in touch with the hundreds of people from around the world who contacted me by email and telephone with words of encouragement and job leads after my sign board publicity initially went viral, I was motivated to write a book after I eventually landed a job and hundreds more people contacted me proclaiming I was an inspiration and seeking job hunting advice. During the cold, lonely winter nights and on weekends, while my wife and children were in Omaha and I was working at an accounting firm in NYC, I started writing Experienced MIT Grad For Hire based on my personal experience and career coach Paloma Bowland’s transformational advice. I wanted to share my inspirational story and give encouragement to the many people who gave me encouragement when I needed it most — during my long stretch of unemployment. I wanted to reach out to people all over the world with words of help and hope. Even a year and a half after my photograph and story first went public, they continued to circulate the globe — and even a year after I started working again, many people asked for the details of my inspirational act, unique job search, what I learned and where it had taken me. I realized that I enjoy — and am good at — helping others, so I decided to share the tools I learned from my experience — to inspire people to think and act in new ways to land a job. Anyone who is looking for a job or who could use a bit of personal inspiration may be interested in my informative tale of creativity, bravery, perseverance and practical job hunting advice.
Just as I was motivated to a start my blog www.oracleofny.com to keep in touch with the hundreds of people from around the world who contacted me by email and telephone with words of encouragement and job leads after my sign board publicity initially went viral, I was motivated to write a book after I eventually landed a job and hundreds more people contacted me proclaiming I was an inspiration and seeking job hunting advice.
During the cold, lonely winter nights and on weekends, while my wife and children were in Omaha and I was working at an accounting firm in NYC, I started writing Experienced MIT Grad For Hire based on my personal experience and career coach Paloma Bowland’s transformational advice.
I wanted to share my inspirational story and give encouragement to the many people who gave me encouragement when I needed it most — during my long stretch of unemployment. I wanted to reach out to people all over the world with words of help and hope.
Even a year and a half after my photograph and story first went public, they continued to circulate the globe — and even a year after I started working again, many people asked for the details of my inspirational act, unique job search, what I learned and where it had taken me.
I realized that I enjoy — and am good at — helping others, so I decided to share the tools I learned from my experience — to inspire people to think and act in new ways to land a job.
Anyone who is looking for a job or who could use a bit of personal inspiration may be interested in my informative tale of creativity, bravery, perseverance and practical job hunting advice.
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could. I had done some investing over the years, making money most of the time and<br />
breaking even at others, so I got prepared to be a more active stock trader.<br />
The Internet-based technology available to people who wanted to trade stocks<br />
from home on a daily basis, day-traders, had been well-developed over the years and was<br />
quite remarkable. With real-time signals about what was going on in the markets and<br />
with individual stocks, day-trading looked easy. Every day, as I watched the market, I<br />
convinced myself that I would have made thousands of dollars if only I had been day-<br />
trading. I grew certain I could make a living in the stock market.<br />
Another possibility I envisioned for myself was staring a hedge fund and<br />
managing other peoples’ money. Over the years, I had become enamored by one specific<br />
strategy which I some day hoped to implement on a grand scale. I had read several<br />
academic papers demonstrating that the buy-write or covered-call strategy was one of the<br />
most prudent and lucrative investment strategies—and it made perfect sense to me. I<br />
could buy stocks and sell options against them.<br />
I could help people protect their stock investments from the downside and grow<br />
their portfolio to the upside by doing what a hedge fund was supposed to do—hedge.<br />
If done correctly—with discipline, a little trading strategy and a portfolio of the<br />
most successful long-term performing stocks—it was no more than selling time and<br />
volatility. In the long run, I would reap the benefits of growth and the dividends paid by<br />
some of the biggest and best companies in the world. Perhaps I could raise enough funds<br />
to start my own hedge fund.<br />
Cindy thought I should do it all: look for a job, start day-trading and try to raise<br />
money for a hedge fund.
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