<p>“Like most financial stories, this one is personal. It starts with me getting into the financial services industry more or less by accident. I answered an ad in 1995 that I thought was for a job related to security (as in security guard) but was in fact related to securities. Thats how little I knew about the stock market.”</p>
<p>Here’s a guy who originally confused “security” with “securities” - and in 4 years he was a certified financial planner working at Merrill Lynch."</p>
<p>This floored me as well.</p>
<p>Like saying " I was a fishmonger and saw an ad searching for Sturgeon, ended up they really wanted a Surgeon. Four years later I’m at the operating table, patients are dying right and left. I still can’t figure out what went wrong."</p>