Comments on: hitting the books http://www.crystaljean.net/2009/01/hitting-the-books/ Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:23:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jeff http://www.crystaljean.net/2009/01/hitting-the-books/comment-page-1/#comment-84 Jeff Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:18:01 +0000 http://blog.crystaljean.net/?p=71#comment-84 Wall Street doesn't work, har har... but my rather opinionated commentary comes from my background as an engineer who feels that his performance is unfairly judged by a bunch of suits on a trading floor who know nothing about what he's doing. And even when he and his peers are doing a great job, the stock price goes down for no good reason other than maybe what the suits had for breakfast that day (it's actually based on how they feel we'll do in the future [nutshell], but still... it's a feeling nonetheless, and the feeling could have been influenced by breakfast). Er, as far as reading recommendations, wikipedia's always a good place to start. I also subscribe to Money magazine (it was free, I figured "what the heck I'll try it" and it wasn't that bad), as well as some blogs like MyMoneyBlog. And some helpful videos explaining some concepts in layman's terms can be found at http://vimeo.com/marketplace/videos. Hope your learning journey is fruitful! :) Wall Street doesn’t work, har har… but my rather opinionated commentary comes from my background as an engineer who feels that his performance is unfairly judged by a bunch of suits on a trading floor who know nothing about what he’s doing. And even when he and his peers are doing a great job, the stock price goes down for no good reason other than maybe what the suits had for breakfast that day (it’s actually based on how they feel we’ll do in the future [nutshell], but still… it’s a feeling nonetheless, and the feeling could have been influenced by breakfast).

Er, as far as reading recommendations, wikipedia’s always a good place to start. I also subscribe to Money magazine (it was free, I figured “what the heck I’ll try it” and it wasn’t that bad), as well as some blogs like MyMoneyBlog. And some helpful videos explaining some concepts in layman’s terms can be found at http://vimeo.com/marketplace/videos.

Hope your learning journey is fruitful! :)

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