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and my friend said okay listen if you
want you can go into the business I'm
trying to get into you can become a
stock
broker you can make a lot of money a lot
of the guys that I work for make a lot
of money I said okay great introduce me
so I go to this office the parking lot
is full of brand new cars if anybody saw
the movie Boiler Room which is
a crooked operation of stock Brokers
this looked exactly the same and I later
find out they were also crooked just
like
them so I go and I see a bunch of young
guys everybody's in their 20s and 30s
everyone has a brand new car they're
wearing, suits I said okay this is
interesting and I asked the guy okay
what do you have to do I know a little
bit about the stock markets I had some
money so I invested in the stock market
and got lucky and had one of my stocks
actually go
up Hashem
was Paving my way to go to this business
I only find out 16 year l 16 years later
why hint it's not the
money so he tells me listen you come
work for me you pay your dues pretty
much you work for me for a while you
pass your test you do this you do that
you call prospects you make 250 bucks a
week th000 bucks a month so okay I'll be
here
tomorrow a little bit of a downgrade
about 90% but it has potential so I
start
working and being ambitious I I realized
very quickly that in order for me to be
good I have to be better than everyone
else so I have to start learning what
the hell they're doing so I start
reading the Wall Street Journal I start
reading different things on the internet
I start reading magazines and I get into
it I work for them for about a month and
then I find out that there's some guy
coming to the office saying goodbye to
everyone he has suitcases and he says
goodbye and everyone's hugging him and
kissing him and I have no idea what's
going on oh maybe he's going on a long
break
few weeks later I find out he's going to
jail so why I find out that he's going
to jail which is about almost two months
after I start working for these people
I'm not making any sales I'm
just asking people if they're interested
in getting information from this
firm 7:59 in the morning I'm reading my
Wall Street Journal trying to get
familiar with this
business and my boss Dean yells at me
saying what are you doing said I'm
reading the Wall Street Journal
relax did you relax get out of here it's
time to work said okay I'll go work
somewhere else and I
leave again I don't like when people
yell at
me my friend that got me the job calls
me about an hour or two later says
listen you come back if you want uh you
know he'll take you back said thank you
very much I don't want I'll find
somewhere else I go work for for
somebody
else which ends up being in a city it's
a friend of a my brothers used to play
soccer
together and I go start working for this
guy smaller
office not crooked like these people at
least I find out later on that all of
them almost all of them go to
jail so hasem had some mercy on
me so I go work for this other
guy he's not a crook exactly like they
are but he's not an angel either he's
very vicious when it comes down to
actually paying
people so I work for him for free and I
have to earn my way and for the next
year and a half the most amount of money
that I make in one
month is
$1,800 but he only pays me $
900 because I was on the
phone 10 times during the month past
8:00 in the morning
per on personal phone calls so he docks
the whole day pay for that after that I
decide to
quit and I go back into making a little
bit of money in the electronics business
again for a few months until the firm
that was a big firm from next door that
heard about me and met me and so on he
said listen if you want to come work for
us we'll treat you better we'll do this
we'll do that said okay fine listen I'm
willing to I'm I'm not willing to work
for anyone I'm willing to be partners
with somebody I'll build you know I'll
get clients you develop the clients I'll
do one part of the business you the the
other part of the business but since I
don't really have any money I need you
to pay me a draw meaning that I'll pay
you back or you take it from the
commissions we generate okay how much do
you want I need $2,200 a month it's not
exactly a lot of money especially when
you're working 14 15 hours a
day said fine no problem
I come in I'm all excited I pass my
Series 7 test I passed my series 63 test
I already get two
licenses which is like the average in
the
industry and I go start working for this
guy after a month
passes I ask him for my paycheck I got
him 14
clients or 11 clients the first month I
got him 11 new clients I said okay we're
making some money this is good I said
can I have my check he said no no no I
hold the first check in case you screw
me
oh okay you're one of those fine for me
to leave right now I have to start the
whole story again I just left one place
for two years almost now I'm going to
start another place okay you know what
I'll believe you I'll buy another
month we'll double down I work another
month I get 14 clients the second month
which is a lot so now we have 25 new
clients in two months I ask for my check
and he gives me a check for
$812 personal check
I look at and I ask him is this lunch
money
or he said no no it's your paycheck from
last month he said no no you're you're
missing a few thousand supposed to be
$4,400 even if you want to hold this fur
check for whatever excuse you made up
last month it's still 2,200 cuz what are
you talking about I don't remember
promising you anything what do you mean
we had an agreement he goes we have a
contract
so what contract you gave me your word
you work for a big
company so we don't have a contract I
don't remember what I
said
okay if you all
remember every Wednesday we read
AIA God is the one that takes Revenge
and he shows up once in a
while I just didn't think it was for me
until later
on not a month po goes by I go obviously
I go to the boss of the uh of the office
and I tell him listen this
guy robbed me for a few thousand I'm now
finding out more information about him
that apparently I'm not the first guy
that he did it to I don't want to work
for him anymore or with him or anything
I just want to be in
dependent and the guys and the owner
tells me he goes well listen I have to
think about
it and I'll get back to you said okay
fine and he comes back and he
says why should I let you be
independent I said well I work better
than I work harder than everyone else
most people show up at 9 or 10:00 in the
morning and leave at 4: I show up at
6:30 :0 or 7 I leave at
midnight it's a good indication I'm
going work I work
hard okay but it's going to cost you
about $4,000 a month to work here at
least you know because you have to pay
for the secretary and the
office and the
paper and the other paper and the phone
bills maybe some paper too and some
other stuff that he could just make up
and it's about $4,000 says do you have
it
says no where you going to get it from I
said I have no idea but I'll get it said
okay he lets me go on my own is what
it's called in the
industry and just two days later
September 11
happens when Hashem says he takes
Revenge he takes Revenge the guy that
paid me
$81 was out of the business apparently
all of his money was in a the stock
market he lost all of it he left the
business nice M lesson don't short
people
money play with their
life we are meant to be a light unto the
Nations not to follow their misguided
practices remember every Jew has to
remember that he's a Jew and she's a Jew
we don't celebrate non-jewish holidays
even if they seem
harmless it's a zulul
disrespect to the Torah and could lead
to CH hasem desecration of God's name
stick to our holy tah and our own
holidays that's the path of a true Jew