{"id":420,"date":"2008-10-17T09:59:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T15:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottnkelly.com\/blog\/?p=420"},"modified":"2008-10-17T09:59:11","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T15:59:11","slug":"smile-if-it-makes-you-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/17\/smile-if-it-makes-you-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"Smile, if it makes you happy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/citibankpandit-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-421 aligncenter\" title=\"Why do I look so happy?\" src=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/citibankpandit-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"129\" height=\"97\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Do you know this guy?\u00a0 He looks happy enough, right?\u00a0 Why is he smiling you ask?\u00a0 Is it because he is genuinely happy, or is it because he received good news&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/traderbad2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-422 aligncenter\" title=\"I am so happy I could cry.  Or something.\" src=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/traderbad2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"93\" height=\"123\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">How about this guy?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/traderbad-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-423 aligncenter\" title=\"Hmmm. How could I be happier?\" src=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/traderbad-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"138\" height=\"95\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Or this guy?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">No?\u00a0 Not familiar with any of them?\u00a0 Maybe this will help.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/citibank1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-424 aligncenter\" title=\"Oh Happy Day!\" src=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/citibank1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">No?\u00a0 How about this one then.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/citibank2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-425 aligncenter\" title=\"It just doesn\\'t get any better than this.\" src=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/citibank2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"217\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have once again come to the realization that money can&#8217;t buy you happiness, and now I believe I have learned the truth of it.\u00a0 LOSING money is where it&#8217;s at!<\/p>\n<p>Somehow I don&#8217;t think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everypoet.com\/archive\/poetry\/Rudyard_Kipling\/kipling_if.htm\">Rudyard Kipling <\/a>had this in mind, but if you can smile when your company just lost 2.8 billion &#8211; I repeat &#8211; BILLION dollars (and at the fact that your parachute clause guarantees you will be rewarded for it), then you have a somewhat &#8216;cushy&#8217; job I should think.<\/p>\n<p>Please, someone, tell them that I bet I can lose money better than any of those CEO&#8217;s.\u00a0 Combined.\u00a0 While I don&#8217;t have the track record yet to prove that, I am a fast learner and have excellent communication skills.\u00a0 On top of that I can make the data say anything you want it to say with disclaimers of course.\u00a0 So on paper it could look like the company is losing more than it actually is.\u00a0 BONUS!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Marketwatch.com for the inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>These are indeed crazy, crazy times.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/weights-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-426 aligncenter\" title=\"Have a Day!\" src=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/weights-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"59\" height=\"111\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know this guy?\u00a0 He looks happy enough, right?\u00a0 Why is he smiling you ask?\u00a0 Is it because he is genuinely happy, or is it because he received good news&#8230;. How about this guy?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5],"tags":[82,129,133,213,228],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}