The Showtime

Though I have been blogging for last few years, I thought of starting a new blog. A blog that would be devoted to the professional part of my life. A blog where I would be penning down how my profession has changed and has been continuously changing the personality that I have. It's a mere attempt to follow the journey of knowing myself better. Discovering oneself, one might say. I see the process of feeding this blog on a regular basis as a way to help myself getting more deeply involved in my job.

I am a derivatives trader by profession. A relatively new one but a trader, nonetheless. As a college student, I, like most of my peers, didn't know where I would land professionally. To be honest, at that time I didn't really know what to do with my life. But one thing I was quite sure of. In the long run, I didn't want to do something that won't guarantee me happiness. Well, let's not use the word guarantee. That word refuses to appear in a trader's dictionary. Let's just say that I wanted to do something that would give me a decent chance of being happy and satisfied. Chance....well, now that's a word that appears in the trading dictionary every now and then, irrespective of the fact that one word isn't allowed to appear more than once in a dictionary. But then, normals rule don't apply here. Or may be, no rules apply here. That's what this profession is all about: the absence of a rulebook and the presence of a zillion mutually contradicting theories. Call it a complete chaos or even an unhealthy madness but the thing is what's the fun in order and sanity anyway!!