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I was the chief financial officer of a good sized California bank that specialized in variable rate mortgages.

I don’t remember much about those years other than my company going bankrupt, losing my job and my 401(k) plan, being unemployed for six months, getting divorced and my brother dying.

@CHAS

Actually, they came down early on Friday afternoon because the winds hit 40 mph. What a bunch of wimps/

we’ve got this four day race going on in Reno this weekend

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I was not particularly anti-smoking back in the 60-70s. That’s just the way it was - all the cool people smoked and I didn’t. This was not the first example of me not being cool. I was exposed to a lot of secondhand smoke in college but I don’t think much of it was tobacco.

Then there was my first assignment at my first full-time job as an auditor with a public accounting firm in 1974. At a client, I was stuck in a small cramped office with two chain smokers all day for several weeks. Maybe three packs a day each?

I came home every day feeling sick and I wasn’t even sure why at first. by the time the assignment was over I was ready to burn all the clothes I had worn into that office. I was not a professional medical researcher, but I started to develop a theory that smoking wasn’t good for me.

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@jon-nyc

hopefully, you were polite and kept all your smoke in your own row…

On a slightly more serious note, I recall even back then being appalled, sitting on an airplane full of people smoking cigarettes.

fake news. I’m pretty sure all these pictures are from just two or three years ago.

I was working as CFO of a bank at the time and two of the investment firms who provided coverage for us were Canter Fitzgerald and Sandler O’Neal. So there were three analysts who I would talk to on a regular basis, either about our financial results or about the state of the banking industry in general. All employees of Canter Fitzgerald who were in the office that day died, and the firm had more losses than anyone else -over 600 I believe. All the analysts I knew from those two firms died that day.

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unfortunately, the technical banking expression “glad you owe us” is more than one word, or I would’ve used it as a response to gladiolus…

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