A little tid-bit

It pays to have an online subscription to the FT. (Just had to slip that in there somehow so that you could choose, if you are that way inclined, to be impressed at my commitment to becoming a commercially-aware/business-minded individual, even though such things bore me to death!!!)

Where was I? Oh yes... You wake up on a Saturday morning, apprehensive about the nature of the 'world' you will officially dive into on Monday morning... and then you see something like this on the frontpage of the FT.. (Bear in mind, as you read, that my FF [Future Firm!! Get with the lingo!] has been the leading M&A firm in all of Europe for the last five years or so, and still is.. )

M&A drives surge in drinking problems
"The pressures of the recent boom in mergers and acquisitions have driven a surge in alcohol addiction among City professionals such as investment bankers, lawyers and accountants, according to counselling organisations and attendance levels at Alcoholics Anonymous. AA now holds up to 22 meetings a week across the City of London and Canary Wharf, compared with what the organisation says was “substantially fewer” a decade ago."

The rest of the article is pointless and boring... But.. uh.. yah.. say a little prayer for me will ya?