foreign exchange

My new job at the bank is so much fun.  It's like a breath of fresh air, to use a cliché, in comparison to my old job as a cook.  No more standing over a hot grill for eight or more hours at a time.  Now I don't come home smelling a steak and burnt french fries.  The most important improvement, my boss is actually a nice human being.  At the last place I worked my boss was a total crazy person.  There wasn't a single employee there that he liked at all and the same goes for the way they felt about him.  It was almost like he made a point of picking on a different person every day until they were ready to quit and then their shift would end.  The only reason we stuck around was because the pay was so good, and most of us didn't have any other experience except restaurant type work.  One day when I got off of work I was looking in to taking a trip to France, which I have always wanted to do.  When I was checking prices I had to keep using my online currency converter to check what the money exchange rates would be for me, since I had been hearing only bad things about the US dollar currency news.  When I was converting the price for a hotel room I got an add that popped up for job openings at a local bank in their foreign exchange department.  I was at a point where I would accept any job as long as it wasn't the one I already had.  So I called that day and set up an interview.  The next week I had an interview with the representative of the bank's foreign exchange department.  The interview went very well and they said they wanted to train me immediately at their branch in New York.  About two weeks later I got on a plane to the city and got trained in what I would be doing which is mainly work with money exchange rates.  It's not what I ever imagine myself doing, but it's still really cool and a much better place to work than the last place I worked.