On Nov 26, 2007 3:13 PM, < joseph.j.mithers@jpmorgan.com > wrote:
Hi
My new mobile number in the US is +1 347 468 9963
My personal email is joe.j.mithers@gmail.com
Joe
Joe J. Mithers
JP Morgan Asset Management
Global Multi-Asset Group
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On 11/26/07, Aaron Bell
Joe,
Some strange movements just might be afoot for me. What I'm about to say is VERY VERY preemptive,
but I thought to tell you in hopes that maybe you could keep your ear to the ground for me.
I'm working at North Star Resource Group in Portland, Oregon. Working as a financial advisor, licensed
with my Series 7 and Series 66, as a securities broker/dealer, investment banker & insurance agent.
I'm working most closely with small business owners, helping them put benefit programs in place for
their employees, & providing for the owners wealth accumulation strategies and tax advantaged investing.
HOWEVER, my girlfriend of 2.5 years is applying to fashion merchandising school in NYC, and is
looking to make a permanent move to New York in Fall of '08. If she should go, I would deeply consider
moving to New York as soon as January 2009…. Yikes! But of course, I would need a job, and one that
is competitive with the luxurious lifestyle i'm living out in the pacific northwest :)
I'm familiar with J.P Morgan and some of its competitors, but I just wanted to let you know of my situation,
and keep you informed as my life begins shape-shifting and all that good stuff. Perhaps you could let me
know how you're finding your time with J.P. Morgan, and New York city in general… and maybe even keep
and ear & eye out for any future opportunities for a guy like me.
Kinda scary just thinking about how big of a transition that would be for me… but then again, you've just
made a similar one! Anyways, keep in touch, would ya?
Hope you enjoyed your american thanksgiving! Cheers,
~Aaron
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 7:22 PM, Joe Mithers
Aaron
good to hear from you, shame you missed our domination in the european finals
i will def keep a hear out for you, the problem with a firm like jpm is that recruitment is dominated by large recuuitment programmes but there can be other ways in if you are the right person at the right time
i really enjoy it but work on the buy side asway from all the investment banking rubbish that is more cut throat
i used to work in the private bank in london…….its huge in NYC and with the work you are doing at the moment might be a good fit, i would def be able to get a few contacts for you as have a few buddies who work there in NYC that would know the right people
NYC is the sh*t, end of…….just a great city
i cant think of any city in the world where it is easier to be a stranger because most people who live here are not from here
where abouts are you based again?
who you playing ultimate for?
i might play for PoNY next year but will see, i felt pretty jaded last year so will see what want to do in the spring
if you in NYC in the meantime let me know
cheers!
joe
three years is a long time stay quiet. but i suppose i've been making noise in other channels. the diffusion and the disperal of the voice in the digital age adds a disquietude to the psyche. perhaps some anize.org will help in that.
in local news, another anize.org member will be arriving next week.
In the beginning there was dark and unmoving water, and by desire alone the one came into being.
Here's the sweet spot when you have a free hour and a half to yourself:
Meetings With Remarkable Men, the Video
Word to the wise when viewing… be settled. And disparage distraction.
Cheers,
~Aaron
I was brought to a certain point in my questioning as of late.
A friend raised a recent issue with me that she came across in a latest science journal. She wondered outloud how one's body reacts to certain words, certain images…. in short, it opened up the full realm of questioning how our body reacts to impressions of so many kinds be them audible, tangible, fallible…; These reactions, she expressed, could be instantaneous and mood-altering.
Much later the thought re-occured within me, what i remembered as her intrigue for directional causality, specifically outward-to-inward. For her, the charm of the epiphany was in how we are taken by our surroundings; external impressions like seeing water often inspire an internal mobilization in us of questioning one's thirst and then fetching a drink almost without(!) a thought. But this time in my flash memory moment I was taken a step further. Doesn't the cause of our actionality at least flow the other direction too?
Not long after this, I had a meeting with a teacher who coincidentally told me of a study interesting to him which immediately struck me as the missing compliment to my recent line of inner questioning. In measuring the speed of the human proprioceptive sensory system at the neural level, researchers suggest that our fine sensory motor skills begin to fire several moments before an action effectually results. For example (and I'm sure there are better ones), I may be on the couch, and after standing to my feet, the thought to get some food from the cupboard may feel immediate and simultaneous as i proceed to the kitchen. But the study suggests that before the apparent instantaneous thought to stand up from the couch, my fine motor skills were already firing for food, as if my body in concert suggested to me that it was hungry well before the thought occurred to me. Its as if the body's intention was already underway in execution before the thinking even caught on to the plot.
I began to wonder how often I get my signals crossed in habit… thinking i'm thirsty when i'm not, versus inhibiting my body in thought when its signaling/informing me of its thirst, etc. Moreover, how does such cross-signaling, maybe i'll call it self ignorance, trickle into my relationships, my study habits, my decision making?
Further, it became more and more clear to me that the body can function without the thought. The body is full-well capable of suggesting to itself what it needs without my reflexive thought there to execute. Much like many thousands of plants and animalia function in this kingdom quite competently without an apparent “conscious” or “train of thought”. They seem to carry on just fine in natural reflex, reaction. In that regard, my present state of mind is like a hitchhiker of sorts… there for the ride, and in a symbiotic position to really (& ideally) attempt to discover the landscape of my own body and its naturally communicative corporal state.
How interesting it was for me to think in that regard of my sense of self.
Sometimes when the going gets tough, when i'm not living up to my best, when i catch myself making simple errors in my simple little life, that's when i sometimes find myself frozen, standing between me and the ten things i feel i have to do that day.
Now is one of those times, and i realize i can't even bring myself to action without first a verbalization. I need to admit my impasse outloud before the possibility of manifesting right action. The truth is i recently more than ever recognize my lack of permanent will. I can fall into a funk at a moment's notice. Can't get up, can't respond, can't do whatever it is that is needed of me in a given moment. Groceries ready to be cooked are not bigger than me. Papers ready to be filed are not bigger than me. Clothes ready to be laundered are not bigger than me. A body ready to be toned is not bigger than ME.
I can get up early for work. I can appropriate time for letter-writing. I can do what is asked of me, and I can live up to the things I tell others I will do. It is just me, my word, and my action in this world, and that never changes. I must recognize in every moment my inseparability to these three eternal notions. I must demand more of myself.
I have lived long enough now to see that I am a man of quality. I need no longer seek the easy way out. I am a man of effort. The time i spend avoiding action under the all too comfortable guise of deliberation is time better spent simply on working. I can lift myself up from my spine and walk tall into the crisis of now; inevitably there is something asked of me there. I will not rollover at the sound of this alarm. I cannot. I hurt too much to see me in this way. I will pay as I go, and not have the carpet pulled out from under me because of folly.
My growth in this life will not be violent awakenings; it will not be shocks of an unforeseen nature. I will grow because I am working in every moment I manage to will. I will grow because of this demand on myself to awake by my own efforts. This challenge too is not bigger than me because it is possible within me.
we can cultivate an “occupation of inner activity,”
The grasshopper lies heavy…
'To be open to all that appears… We are guided. Its enough to know that we are guided so, especially in hard times.”
“tendency for possession is so strong”
“in presence, one can sample the quality of another's being”
“Speaker #1 asserts that remorse may serve to deepen our being., it may very well be brought out by conscious laboring and intential suffering (which was qualified as the experience of the world as it is)”
“Can a flower be seperated from its fragrance.”
“The disparity between the beings of two men may be far greater than between a mineral and an animal.”
“overwrought and distracted with things that don't matter”
“We need to create space within ourselves for others, even of those who have already passed…”
“I am man #7 on a continuum, we need to illuminate our entire inside and the possibility of our entire life's work. this then can be the quality of our “i am” statement.
“venture with ideas”
Impediment - lots of predators out there waiting to find receptive people…. We must help the people with a spiritual hunger from being victim to false profits….