I really had high hopes for the future back in June. I thought I had a good chance of passing the Level 3 CFA® Exam. I thought I’d finally get a new job. I thought I’d get to travel and enjoy life…

For the last couple days while not networking or applying for jobs I’ve been parked in a couple of cafes in Shanghai working my way through the book “Python for Data Analysis”…

Apparently after writing a CFA® exam and while waiting for your score the thing to do according to online forums is to learn Python. I’ve now passed all three CFA exams and I already have programming experience in: Microsoft BASIC, Turbo Pascal, C, C++, Perl, Scheme, JavaScript, Modula-2, Java, Objective-C, PHP, VBA, and ColdFusion…

The CFA® exam has come and gone. I will write more on this later, but I took time out of my study schedule to report a whole bunch of intellectual property theft and four months later some of those files are still online…

During my never ending post-MBA job search one of many suggestions I got was to do some certifications. I always said I was willing to do certifications in job interviews and even started the CFA® program while I was unemployed. However, in order to do the PMP you need to be actively working as a Project Manager, but I eventually learned you can do other project management certifications…