I think I found my new job!

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

What it means is that when I espouse my socialist, liberal, commie, left-wing, pinko opinion on taxing the rich, it means I'll have some skin in the game and I'll be talking about myself.

I used to say to my right-leaning friends "You know, I HOPE I have to worry about taxation on the rich. It means I'm RICH!"

Congrats! That's great news.

And if you start leaning right, don't sweat it.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

I can't tell anyone at work, as it's yet to be announced, and I need to tell someone.

I just more than doubled my annual income today. I was offered a position as a municipal bond trader. I jumped all over it as if it was a busty redhead with a few beers in her. It's variable...you get a commission based on the volume of business that your desk does at work, but I have a guaranteed minimum salary (even that is more than I'm making now) if things go really south. But the average salary for this position has been pretty lucrative in past years. I am friggin over the moon.

I am having my celebratory steak and beers in our newly built home that we just moved into two weeks ago. To paraphrase from The Simpsons: "Everything's coming up Mookie!"

That is great news. Glad to hear it. Hard work pays off. There has been plenty of threads discussing that fact. Start doubling your 401k contributions.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

And if you start leaning right, don't sweat it.

:ha r:


That is priceless friend!

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Congrats! That's great news.

And if you start leaning right, don't sweat it.

This whole story sounds very Biblical.



Mookie's road to Damascus.


All in good fun.

So what's in a typical day for you? (work day)

[Schroeder]

Congrats Mookie.

Good luck with the new position.

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

This whole story sounds very Biblical.



Mookie's road to Damascus.


All in good fun.

So what's in a typical day for you? (work day)

If my firm underwrites a municipal bond deal (meaning that we help the issuer get the deal to market - they get the funds they need to build a road, school, sewer system, etc. and we get the bonds) - then I would help oversee our sales force's efforts to market the bonds to their customer book.

My desk also would trade bonds with other broker/dealers on the street, meaning that if another firm had attractive bonds on their inventory that I think were a good deal and that our salespeople could sell, I would buy those bonds and hold them in our inventory while our salespeople worked them. If the market moves and those bonds started looking bad, we would sell them to other dealers on the street.

Wheelin' n' dealin' mainly.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by u crank

Maybe you'll get that boat now?

Then he'd end up doubling his annual income while tripling his annual expenses.

Congrats Mookie! Good luck in the new position.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

Then he'd end up doubling his annual income while tripling his annual expenses.

The proverbial hole in the water a boat is.

[vienna]

Congrats, mookiemookie! Please try not to run over us little people as you drive by in your soon to get luxury car...

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