What is the element for Financial Services career? Is it wood, earth, metal, water or fire?
Thank you for your clarification.

Dear Anon,
1. In general (broad sense); Finance Services has to do with the Metal element.
2. This was because, Finance or Accounting was said to deal with "coins"; thus this is where it has an association with the metal element.
3. However, in the past, careers can be easily classifed. For example, a Merchant is a merchant. A butcher is a butcher.
4. But as most of us are aware, if one is a salaried worker or even working for one's self; there is a high element of "multi-skilling".
5. This is not because our "employer-tax-us-to-death" but because, now adays even a butcher may have to use a computer eg. order goods, surf the web etc...
6. A more accurate way is to look at one's core job specifications.
7. Thus even in the Finance sector, if one is a trainer e.g. corporate trainer; then he/she is more likely associated with the wood element. Where wood element is much like a tree or plant that promotes growth, learning.
8. If one is a Credit analyst or into Financial consultant (and every month must meet a required "sales" target) then, this person has a career that is more inclined towards the "Fire element" i.e. sales and marketing.
9. Under the Ba zi, career analysis or reports, one can see two major categories:
Career related to one's wealth
Career related to one's power and authority
etc...
10. Often, there is no right or wrong answers. It is how, one properly `argue' it out.
11. Looking at it; nowadays, a career is not like the concept of Hot and Cold. And our career cannot be at the extreme ends of either Hot or cold. It often lies in between.
12. And in-fact, "multi-tasks" suggests that often, our career has all the five elements but perhaps one or two is more distinct. This is acceptable. As our job will not be so dull!
13. Today, even a home-maker has to do various tasks not just one job alone.
14. Frankly, our life will be more interesting if we do varied tasks. If not, either one is like a `dead wood' or unfortunately can be considered as a "retard". We won't want to be labelled as this rite?
Warmest Regards,
Cecil

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On 9/26/2003 12:15:35 PM, Anonymous wrote:
What is the element for
Financial Services career? Is
it wood, earth, metal, water
or fire?
Thank you for your
clarification.