From Lehman to Landscaping: A Laid-Off Banker, One Year Later

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I was seduced, and then I was dumped.

So goes the tale of my short-lived stint as an investment banker. It ended almost exactly a year ago, when I became one of the earliest lay-offs in our ongoing recession.

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