http://andybelike.wordpress.com/2007/02/25/quote-of-the-day/ Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:23:35 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://andybelike.wordpress.com/2007/02/25/quote-of-the-day/#comment-15 sarzi Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:35:36 +0000 http://andybelike.wordpress.com/2007/02/25/quote-of-the-day/#comment-15 Andy, I'm here again and I'm posting this after replying to your comments in my "Luck in Life" post. You could never have been more correct about blessings in disguise. Remember my reply to your comment on how I became an investment banker? Well, let me add a bit more to my story. The offer I got from my SEVP for me to join my bank's Investment Banking Group as head of its newly-minted project finance deal team actually came at the cost of a long friendship with my SVP whom I have worked with from a long way back. Funny, but I had wanted to turn down the offer because I thought my boss-friend needed my help more at that time. However, my boss-friend unreasonably suspected that I had applied for the job. To make a long story short (for it took some time before I decided, with many more encounters in between), the choice in the end turned out to be between a job offer and a friendship. My boss-friend actually decided it for me by burning her bridge to mine. The only respectable option left for somebody being ignored, bypassed, and given a cold-shoulder treatment was to leave. That proved to be a blessing in disguise.... Andy, I’m here again and I’m posting this after replying to your comments in my “Luck in Life” post. You could never have been more correct about blessings in disguise. Remember my reply to your comment on how I became an investment banker? Well, let me add a bit more to my story. The offer I got from my SEVP for me to join my bank’s Investment Banking Group as head of its newly-minted project finance deal team actually came at the cost of a long friendship with my SVP whom I have worked with from a long way back. Funny, but I had wanted to turn down the offer because I thought my boss-friend needed my help more at that time. However, my boss-friend unreasonably suspected that I had applied for the job. To make a long story short (for it took some time before I decided, with many more encounters in between), the choice in the end turned out to be between a job offer and a friendship. My boss-friend actually decided it for me by burning her bridge to mine. The only respectable option left for somebody being ignored, bypassed, and given a cold-shoulder treatment was to leave. That proved to be a blessing in disguise….

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