Follow my blog as I encounter age discrimination every day in my job search. I will disclose every company, every name, every situation where age discrimination is practiced against me.

Now most people would not expect to see a [[mutual fund]] company headquartered in Bellingham, and I have to admit I was surprised also.  I had seen the Saturna Capital offices which were rather odd looking for a little while as I drove down Holly Street.
 An interesting side note - Saturna is the name of an island in the San Juan’s that are part of northern Puget Sound and border WA and Victoria and Vancouver, BC. 

But as chance would have it, I discovered who they were about the same time they  placed an ad in [[CareerBuilder]] for a copywriter/financial editor who knew a lot about  the investment business, finance, etc. 

Here’s the kid who, according to their own website, has the position.  He seems like a nice kid and here’s his background right off the Saturna site:

Jacob last name deleted, Copyeditor, joined Saturna Capital in November 2007. He moved to Bellingham from Texas, where he obtained a BA in English Literature from Schreiner University in 2005. Jacob enjoys hiking, amateur mycology, and constructing rafts from driftwood.

And I have 30 years in the securities industry.  And I can write, and from the perspective of simplifying complicated issues into easily understood every day [...] Continue Reading…

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This one hurt a lot.

So, now I’ll tell the story.  This occurred in February of this year.

In the 1980’s, in my capacity as manager of a small sized firm, I licensed a brokerage back office system named CAESAR.  I dealt directly with the programmer and owner of the code, and installed it into my firm’s back office.  It worked as advertised and although customization was minimal, it provided a good out-of-the-box solution to my firms needs.

American Express buys the software about a year later and puts money and resources into improving CAESAR’s scale and markets it as a solution to small and medium sized broker / dealers.  They never get traction.

 In the early 1990’s, the code is purchased by Financial Database  Systems.  These folks had some  programmers and they build some  support, and go out targeting small insurance types and again,  small  brokers.

 I’m at a different firm and now in Hawaii, and I purchase/license the  system for a second time.  It was not cheap and the workgroups were busy and our conversion was successful.

 At the beginning of this year, I see a series of ads in [[Careerbuilder]]  from FDS.  At least two of the positions are clearly solidly within [...] Continue Reading…

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