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July 17, 2008

there’s a new campaign going ’round at work on company love. and they encourage you to tell your story….and a picture of a cute puppy dog with bambi eyes is on every poster asking you to share your thoughts.

i’m not a fan of animals. i hate dogs. but man…i’m a sucker for bambi eyes. so i put my two cents in.

here it is…

It’s interesting how we mentally distinguish and separate our social lives from our work lives, without realizing that they intermingle and are sometimes indistinguishable from each other.

 

Or maybe I’m just speaking for myself.

 

I’ve been in Citi for less than two years and already I can’t imagine myself working elsewhere. It is as if my whole career was designed in preparation for the moment when I would take on my role here as a compliance officer. As far as jobs go, I have never wanted anything so badly – and the feeling of actually being able to do the work that fulfills me the way this job does, is as good as a hug after five years of solitude.


They say that I’m weird this way – loving and appreciating compliance and spreading the virus to all as if it was the latest “in” thing. But I say, I belong to a company with one of the strongest control foundations, and to actually be able to contribute to its growth, its success, is a fulfillment that cannot be bought. And the social life it brings me is one of the richest, fullest sets of characters I can bless my life with.

 

If that isn’t lucky, I don’t know what is.

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