Contact Admin. The holiday season is over, and the Anglo support groups dedicated to helping immigrants find jobs are once again buzzing with activity.
What is the Holy Grail in the agnostic Indiana Jones sense, of course that so many seek? A good paying job, working in English, during Israeli business hours. A few brave, optimistic souls give further qualifications: I want to work in administration; I want to work in accounting; I want to work in neotropical ichthyology.
I answered an ad which promised high finance, and eventually awoke in the gutter wiping pips off my face. By the end of the initial training period, I barely knew more than that forex companies make their money by facilitating the trading of one currency for another, for example, when a client buys 1 Euro, and simultaneously sells 1.
The company spent several additional months training and testing me before I was allowed near anything that required more skill than copying and pasting. Throughout my years working in the markets, I had to go through more training about privacy, fraud, and reporting requirements than when I had worked for either a municipal government or a health insurance agency.
A regulated forex company wants its clients to make money, and spends a lot of time and money making educational resources available. When I went into my bank and was offered a credit card, they did not spend several minutes asking me about my financial history, or my plans regarding future purchases.
