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Os Cangaceiros
2nd March 2012, 07:26
Andrew Schiff was sitting in a traffic jam in California (http://topics.bloomberg.com/california/) this month after giving a speech at an investment conference about gold. He turned off the satellite radio, got out of the car and screamed a profanity.
Im not Zen at all, and when Im freaking out about the situation, where Im stuck like a rat in a trap on a highway with no way to get out, its very hard, Schiff, director of marketing for broker-dealer Euro Pacific Capital Inc., said in an interview.

Schiff, 46, is facing another kind of jam this year: Paid a lower bonus, he said the $350,000 he earns, enough to put him in the countrys top 1 percent by income, doesnt cover his familys private-school tuition, a Kent, Connecticut (http://topics.bloomberg.com/connecticut/), summer rental and the upgrade they would like from their 1,200-square-foot Brooklyn duplex.

I feel stuck, Schiff said. The New York (http://topics.bloomberg.com/new-york/) that I wanted to have is still just beyond my reach.

The smaller bonus checks that hit accounts across the financial-services industry this month are making it difficult to maintain the lifestyles that Wall Street (http://topics.bloomberg.com/wall-street/) workers expect, according to interviews with bankers and their accountants, therapists, advisers and headhunters.

People who dont have money dont understand the stress, said Alan Dlugash, a partner at accounting firm Marks Paneth & Shron LLP in New York who specializes in financial planning for the wealthy. Could you imagine what its like to say I got three kids in private school, I have to think about pulling them out? How do you do that?

etc.

Some choice quotes in that article. Such as the classic


People who don't have money don't understand the stress

lol

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-29/wall-street-bonus-withdrawal-means-trading-aspen-for-cheap-chex.html

Prometeo liberado
2nd March 2012, 09:23
That's why I like being poor. When you do fall there is not far to go. Poor guy.:(

Veovis
2nd March 2012, 10:02
His poor children! They might have to go to *gasp*

PUBLIC SCHOOL!!! :crying:

Leonid Brozhnev
2nd March 2012, 10:06
Oh god forbid his children end up going to a state school like the majority of the fucking population of his country. It's a tragedy, it really is.

Robocommie
2nd March 2012, 10:09
I predict a lot of sympathy in this thread. :)