My experiences might not be typical. As always YMMV. I've worked for several superannuation and insurance companies. During the early days I couldn't believe

My experiences might not be typical. As always YMMV. I've worked for several superannuation and insurance companies. During the early days I couldn't believe how poorly informed most of the management were. Since I couldn't believe that they could be that stupid, I kept things to myself did a lot of research and in that process learnt a lot about the underlying accounting, investing, trading principles. The technical aspects of the work were the least of my problems. But the unrealistic timelines made virtually everything feel like a death march. Burn out is the ever present danger.