It's now my second week at work, well really, as of tomorrow morning, I'll have completed 2 weeks here at Charlie Schwab. I've been training mostly with one person, occasionally shadowing some of the non-nonmarket people, and weekly cash settlements. I've gone through the process some 3-4 turns alone, and it seems as though hands-on is a better learning tool than the text book, watch as I perform the tasks. And although there is a lot to learn, everything that I've performed up to this point has been relatively routine, at specific times, and most work can be expected to be completed within an hour of two of the start time.
By around 3PM each afternoon, I sit around with literally nothing to do, and I feel guilty for sitting around surfing the internet for personal reasons and not for work, yet there is nothing I can do to change that. So I went to speak with my director after the morning trade, afternoon, etc, and he gave me a mathematical issue to work with, one that seemed to really have no end. Like most jobs, instruction is rare... but this was along the lines of "We work with this report every month, and we get this unrealized number, and we don't know how we get it. Here... play aruond with these numbers, and see if you can get this number." For the first five minutes, I worked ratherly blindly with the numbers, and didn't get anywhere. I thought for a brief second that my supervisor really was out of work, and needed something... anything to keep me busy, so he gave me basically an impossible task, and asked me to figure it out, when there is no tangible
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