career nights or an open house. Often there would be a
little food with some soft drinks, and then followed
by speeches by some of the producers in the office who
started talking about "the business." Then the branch
manager would get up and say his bit about how great
"the business" was. While the offices of the different
firms would be different, as would the speakers (some
would be more polished than others. Some speakers were
less believable than others.), the common denominator
was the phrase "the business." It was almost spoken
about in a religious fervor. "The business changed my
life", "this business is good and yet so easy", and
the ever present "you can make so much money in this
business." There was always talking about how good it
could be. In fact, there was a few times in which a
speaker would pull out a picture of his Ferrari, yacht
or mansion as proof of the trappings of success. It
was uncomfortable for me being a private school WASP
who never discussed money to have someone flaunt their
success in such a gaudy manner and yet I still wanted
to pursue the business.
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