In a serious Dip.  Normal stuff. In my early stages of helping mortgage people, it occurred to me: don’t they deserve more than a lender doing it part time?  I think they do.  I’ve got a clear definition of what I want to do–and that’s to help people’s ideas grow.  To help small businesses, [...]

[This is sort of a rambling memoir of my formative early 20's.  For Part I,go here, for part II go here] My first “real” day at bank one in Heath was unspectacular.  I’d been waiting for the bank to open, and the tellers opened the bank pretty quickly.  My boss had nearly perfect local bank [...]

I was being offered a job at Bank One. The base was $28,000 and it rose I think to $32,000 when I got my series 6 license.  It provided me with some security, and since my lifestyle was arranged around a cash need of under $1,000 a month, it also would pay me well, [...]