Klarinet Archive - Posting 000116.txt from 2000/02

From: Ken Wolman <ken.wolman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Velcro ligature
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 23:23:09 -0500

jnohe@-----.edu wrote:

> > You work in a prestigious bank...in New York City....and have a ponytail?
> >
> > What is the world coming to?
>
> Ah...the stereotypes and quick judgements still exist. I can see now that
> I will never get away from the stereotype that I am lazy, or a slacker, or
> a hippy, simply because I like hair.

I am lazy, I am a slacker, and I like hair. I am also 56 years old this
month, which makes me an unreconstructed hippie who learned how to knot
a tie those two days a week when I have to come in here looking
"businesslike." I'm also an ex-academic which makes me look even
weirder to some of the people I've worked with/for.

The places I've worked for over the years EMPLOY me, they do not own me
even if they think otherwise. Slacker or not, I give them value for the
buck. My hair is my business.

Actually, when I was over at Morgan Stanley, real "white shoe" joint,
one of the IT Managing Directors had a graying ponytail to top off the
thousand-buck suits and Ferragamo shoes. Before he became a programmer
and rose through the ranks he was a rock musician.

Some of us ya can't buy or scare.

Ken
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Kenneth Wolman Deutsche Bank, NA 212-469-6026
1251 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020

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