My boss just employed a new guy, a more junior person but with fx experience.

Everytime we were called in together. I really no idea why he is doing this. Is this the first step of trying to get rid of me? I am totally left out of the affair in the office. Nobody seems to tell me anything. What the fish. Not that I wanted to know, but it feel very lousy when you are not in the inside circle. And with what is happening now, I really have this feeling that he will one day come and tell me that I am surplus to his requirement. If that day ever come, I make sure he will not have a good time either.

My most important thing to do now is to be able to trade for a living. This is really my only hope. Not only is my only hope to make a living, but is also my only hope to regain some pride and dignity. As a top student in all my life, I should be in the top post of a big organisation. But I think I really perform under my potential. What worst is that I am not even able to find a job if I were to lose this one! Why have I be placed into such a situation?

Now imagine if I go interview for a job, and the interviewee is a classmate of mine? This can happen. Just saw the papers today and a classmate is the executive director of a MNC which I thought of applying for a job, or maybe I did apply but cannot remember. I think this is too
much for me to take. Therefore to avoid such a situation, the only viable alternative is to run my own firm. I can than give whatever title I want to myself. But of course, my business must be able to make a certain amount of income so that I will not be shy to have that title.

A CHF10k monthly income will be the minimum, I reckon, but a CHF6.6k should be the absolute minimum, I think. According to the survey of salary from the ministry, a person with a title of "Director" has a salary of about 6k to 22k for the 25% percentile to 75% percentile, with the medium around 15-16k range. So if I were to benchmark against this, my current salary is definately within the range. But this is not the point. The point is that, any people who set up his own company can give himself a title of director but only make 3-4k. An associate director with an advertising firm makes about 6k. What I am aiming for is the "real" director level, those really in the managment level. So I ask my wife what is her firm manageing director making, her answer is around 13-14k, but they have a housing allowance of 6k, so all in all is about 19-20k. I should therefore aim for 13-14k, which is about 10k CHF.

I will try to strech it to CHF15k, which will be around 19.5k, which will bring the annual income to about 234k.... this I feel, will justify my using of the title MD, and also must be my target. I know the fengshui master say that my life is not very good, and that I will probably not meet achieve my objective. However, I still want to give it a try. I owe it to myself. I owe it to my wife. And I owe it to my son.