i fell proud am a banker working for tha best performing bank.whose share is realy refrecting tha good work of my hands.


tough times ends but tough people don't end.

Am a financial accountant,extremely happy with my job and career. For those accountants not happy with their jobs they need to try and be more creative and not just punch meaningless numbers. An accountant is supposed to be a very useful resource in the organisations they work in terms of financial advice. Am sure with time you will get your break and you will start loving your jobs.

Jammo,you sound like someone who can make a good mentor. You should consider mentoring a couple of people if you are not already doing that.


'It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.'
Eleanor Roosevelt,Former First Lady

@Stockskenya

Myself and other colleagues (Kenyans in diaspora) and foreigners may be more useful on this forum if you subdivide investment column into Two main headings namely :-

(i) Local Investment

(ii) Off Shore investment.



@Miefu

Aplogies men. I thought you are far younger than 46 ? Thanks and cheers.


AFRICAN INVESTOR

An accountant for eons,bored to death with preparing and reporting FS,now discovering the excitement of financial analysis and going into consulting in financial services.

emem

I help protect investors in a foreign land (what CMA and CBK are supposed to do). As you may have noted on SK,I have gleefully helped bust a few pyramid schemers trying to pose as genuine SK contributors. Their modus operandi is starting posts and promoting their products in a way that says that they are just investors in the so called products,usually labelled 'offshore' so as to sound exotic and entice the not so savvy investor. My previous clients consisted mainly of hedge funds,mutual funds,sovereign funds and private equity funds and therefore exposed me to a lot offshore investments. When I am done with this economic exile,I will return to set up an investors policing network,that will police the regulators. After that I will stop thinking at which point I will have met the qualification for a career in politics.

Investing in the NSE is a game that I plan to always win,it helps me test some of the knoweldge handed down to the likes of Iraya,Kamasara,Iraki,Kariuki,Essajee etc. Many any this forum who have been taught by the aforementioned will agree that they were very poor lectures (investor education wise). Why dont we therefore all go back and teach the students life skills ie entrepreneurship,investing,personal branding and marketing.

Those are the top skills required in a globalizing market place.




Citius altius fortius !

Am a new entrant and I enjoy reading your contributions they are of great help
AM a Banker

hello,

sk members you really informative group.

just got my p45 these week down abit but i know il be back,sub contracted as a courier by UPS uk.credit crunch hapa most companies are downsizing.


cj

Because of such an overwhelming response about what we do,perhaps the next step is to say how we spend the day doing what we say we do,and what makes it interesting or dull.

Do you spend the day doing forensics on a troublesome applications,or advising eager clients where to put their money,or watching the foreman direct the construction of your next building,or like me,repeating for the 100th time how to coat a nice & uniform thin film on silicon,etc.

Do you,for example,spice your day with long coffee/beer/tea/cigarette breaks or just plain air breaks or by furtive glances at SK website if your employer is picky?.

Do you hang your coat/jacket on the chair and conduct other business for the rest of the day...

you get the drift. Maybe I will just start a new thread.

'Debt may go bad but it never rots.' Chinua Achebe

I teach physics chemistry and pe. I am a qualified accountant CPA. I am also a student of information technology. A jack of many trades and a master of non. Thinks of doing am MBA soon.

Life is not a rehearsal

Am a software developer with a keen interest in shares. I will be contacting some of you soon.