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Quit the bank after seven months
Seven Months
Shekhar Natarajan's wife was a banker by training who never planned to work, since he was always traveling. She got bored, so she took a bank job. Within seven months she told him she did not want to do it, because why would she hand more credit cards to someone who already has a lot of them.
A Different Life
She left, and now she helps kids in desperate need and animals who need shelter and care, and she loves dancing and doing whatever she wants. She has free will and a different level of life altogether. Watching that every day convinced him he did not want to be the guy who walks in at nine, clocks out at five, and thinks about the next vacation.
Another Banker's View
A friend of Chetan Bhagat's who worked as a private banker had a similar view of the job: trying to make rich people richer, getting a man who is at 50 million to 100 million. Most people do not question it when they look at the job that way.
How do credit card issuers make money?
Card issuers earn from interest on balances, annual and late fees, and interchange, a fee of roughly one to three percent charged to merchants on each purchase. A customer who holds several cards and uses them often can generate more of all three. Issuers therefore compete for a share of existing cardholders' spending and not only for new customers. In the United States, pre-screened card offers by mail are permitted under the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
Why do some workers see jobs as callings?
Psychologist Amy Wrzesniewski of Yale and colleagues examined this in a 1997 study of employees. They found that people doing the same kind of work described it about equally as a job, a career, or a calling. The difference tracked how workers framed the purpose of their tasks more than their pay or duties.
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