Back with a vengeance

Not to be modest, but I've always been known as a jack of all trades and never being a master of anything. Not that it's a bad thing, but I can confidently say that I have been good in whatever things I engage in. Good, not excellent but not mediocre either. Far from it. The tiny little voice inside my head would probe the question once in awhile on what career path I would like to take. I've never really given much thought to it since like I said, you can put me in any job and I'd do "okay". Ask me to do webpage designing, HTML and graphic design. I definitely can't put on something as neat as NBA.com, but I can come up with something good enough and much better looking than PBA.com. Ask me to cook, I'm no gourmet chef but my cooking is far from the "I'd rather die than eat this shit" category. Ask me to do math, I'm no Einstein but quite capable enough to do calculus on a decent level. You get the idea.

I don't know what has come over me last week, but I wracked the hell out of my brains trying to understand the arcane terms of mathematical finance and artificial intelligence. Yes, my thesis has kept my occupied. How nice right? Ironically, I crave for the lack of sleep, searching for answers. I have junked the idea of comparing artificial intelligence forecasting with traditional methods of forecasting, since I would, as much as possible want to avoid our would-be panelist. Not that I am afraid of him, but I would like to graduate already as soon as possible and I do not have time for stupid panelists that ask me stupid questions. That being said, I have brought up the idea of changing our approach in using AI. We would, instead of forecasting, use it to predict buy/sell signals in the stock market, thus analyzing its profitability. In theory, I would definitely kick ass with a breakthrough technology like that.

A whole week of thinking and pondering of how to go about our paper has led me to discover alot in the field of finance. I come to realize now what a great discipline it is. I never really learned to appreciate it until now. While all other fields in business studies would teach you how to work for your money, finance seems to be the only one that has taught me how to do it the other way around: make my money work for me. I find such a thought very fullfilling. That being said, I have decided that I would like to take a career path in finance, in asset management in particular. There is just something about the equities market and investing that catches my fancy, up to the point of addiction.

It's good that I finally have a clear sense of direction now, since I really need to get a job after I graduate. Finally, something I love to do and something that makes dough. There's nothing in the world I would rather be doing. Insurance bills are starting to be a pain in the ass, being unemployed sucks.