Posted on 10/04/2008 8:19:04 AM PDT by Publius804
Broker turned monk focuses priorities
Bulgarian monk Brother Nikanor, 32, looks inside the church of Tsurnogorski monastery, some 50 km (31miles) west of the capital Sofia, September 24, 2008. The Nasdaq broker turned monk advises his former colleagues, shattered by the financial crisis, to keep a jar full of soil on their desks to remind them about where we are all heading to and what really matters in life.
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Catholic ping
Oops, he’s an Orthodox monk, so disregard the Catholic comment.
I know of a guy who was a brilliant chemist at Merck who later was very successful as a broker on Wall Street, but he hated it. He wanted to become a Catholic priest, but had to take care of his elderly mother. He ended up buying a bar in Perth Amboy, NJ. Don’t know what ever became of him...
He went from wanting to be a monk to becoming a bartender?
Maybe he was just good at listening to people’s stories.
“He went from wanting to be a monk to becoming a bartender?
Maybe he was just good at listening to people’s stories.”
He was definitely concerned with others, and never married as far as I know. I understand he would cook up a little Interferon in the chem lab and give it to folks who needed but couldn’t afford it back when it was $$$$$ a dose.
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