Overcoming a Financial Crisis: Learn to handle money successfully, save and invest intelligently, understand investments and finances, ETF index funds and stock trading for beginners by Simone Janson

Overcoming a Financial Crisis: Learn to handle money successfully, save and invest intelligently, understand investments and finances, ETF index funds and stock trading for beginners by Simone Janson

How to use the crisis as an opportunity: from
investment banker to travel blogger
// By Simone Janson
The story of Keith Jenkins could be a symbol of the current situation in
which the financial crisis is bringing about social change. Because Keith
was an investment banker for 10 years - until he decided to follow his
dreams and passions and make the crisis a chance.
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Keith is anything but a dreamy spinner: When I met him at 2011 in
September at the GoMedia conference in Edmonton, Canada, to which both
of us were invited, he looked like someone who knows what he wants Has
goals - and knows how he realizes them.
And yet, Keith 2008 has done something for which many people would
think him crazy: he gave up his safe and, above all, outstandingly paid job
to travel around the world. 2009, he has published his experiences and
motivations quite honestly in the new-page e-book Travelations: the trip
that opened my eyes, which you can read for free on the Internet (and it is
really worth reading!)
The job is changing people
In it he describes how working as an investment banker at a Dutch bank had
gradually changed his life, but also him as a person, and how he himself
only worked as an auto pilot as a good “corporate citizen”. And how the
fast-paced banking business was starting to tire him.
Then his employer was taken over by a consortium: a decisive experience
for him, because even if one offered him a job, everything, which he had
worked for years, was gone away.
Suddenly free - and now?
After a few months, in which Keith gave the good banker to the outside,
and in his heart thought about throwing everything down, the dismissal
followed. That was, Keith writes, the simpler part. Only with the sudden
freedom did he have difficulties:
Imagine the feeling: it's all in your hands, it's all in your hands
I find another job again
So Keith took a break for the first time - and a trip around the world for
which he had never had time before: he bought a luxurious round-the-world
ticket, booked a few tours and hotels in advance and saw what happened.
For the money or what would happen after his return, he did not worry -
because he had always had so far. In addition, in the first two months of his
five-month trip around the world, he received daily job offers for banks in
Frankfurt, Zurich, London or Amsterdam. One of these he would accept
after his return.
The goal: self-discovery!
His goal was a different one: To find oneself:
First of all, I wanted to 're-discover'myself through self-reflection. What
makes me happy? What makes me happy? What am I passionate about?
These were some of thequestions I pondered over the course of the next five
months.
The career end
And then came the Lehman crash in autumn 2008. Keith was on a yacht in
the Great Barrier Reef when he heard of it. Practically immediately the job
offers stopped. And Keith began to worry about his future. But first he
wanted to enjoy his journey:

Overcoming a Financial Crisis: Learn to handle money successfully, save and invest intelligently, understand investments and finances, ETF index funds and stock trading for beginners by Simone Janson