I'll be honest here, I've been watching Breaking Bad and I'm very curious about the subject. Mafia employs accountants and "Corporate strategy" type of people and I've been wondering: would you guys do it?
Here are a few arguments for/against working for the Mafia/Cartel:
- If you work for the Mob at least you're not manipulating the Libor. The ethic is debatable but people could argue that Bankers are evil too
- The risk is obvious so that's an argument against doing it.
- It's damn exciting compared to Banking/Corporate Finance. It's the only accounting position which involves adrenaline
- You'll have a gap on your resume if you leave and want to go back to a "normal" job. If they let you get out at all...
- It's a growing business, not a lot of down cycles
Have you got any clue on how they recruit people? Have someone ever contacted you to do something even remotely related to that?
The only invitations to organized crime I ever get come out of the emerging markets... Just last week I got a call from a young Yakuza asking for an "informational interview" but I already decided that my top choice is the Triad, where I'll be working Compliance for Ricky Tan. The pay is great but exit opportunities are a little limited because geographically speaking there's not many more prestigious shops in that area of the world...
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Already have, sorta. You're crazy if you think they're not on the Street. Something like this:
My distant uncle was a mafia accountant and he said it was pretty boring. When he was applying for the accounting dept at a oil firm, he just said he handled inventory and P/L for a private firm. It's really not as exciting as you think.
I highly recommend this:
[quote=GoodBread]I highly recommend this:
]That looks like a fantastic movie, so I found the whole thing uncut and with English subtitles on YouTube for those interested in watching it:
http://youtu.be/RpKN4-T0YXE
Looking forward to it myself. For those who don't know how, when you hit play you can turn on the English subtitles with the CC button on the bottom right of the video.
Unless you're directly related to the boss, don't do it.
It'd be fun, unless you got "internally audited" in which case you would have a really, really bad day...
The mafia is the type of thing, where if you're not born into it, you are highly expendable. I'm gonna pass.
You are highly expendable in banking too. But I guess the Mafia doesn't have any social plan/restructuring...
As someone who's grandfather/great-grandfather was in the Sicilian Mafia, here's my take.
Unless you're italian, expect very crappy jobs and no leadership opportunities. You'll be a hit man all your life until someone recognizes your efforts irrelevant to your ethical background and tries to push you up the family ladder. But then again, you have to be really connected with the family to even get pulled into an area of "managerial" responsibility.
I'd recommend becoming a friend of a mobster. Don't get too close though, they'll try to use you as a transportation liaison and that's when you get turned to sub-watch lists, from gangs you may not even know about. But the benefits come in handy when you're trying to do something fun and the cops bust the party.
I disagree that it's a growing business. In some areas, it is, but it's not as "happening" as the Vegas investments in the mid-60's and 70's. Much tougher to break into (maybe as tough as IB? Ha-ha).
The corporate strategy stuff sounds fascinating.
I'm particularly drawn to the big picture stuff; questions like do we dump the body in East River or the Hudson, or who gets first dibs on that double d blonde thing?
BoA monkeys indirectly do: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/09/los-zetas-laundered-money-bank…
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