Broker

Isolation, Wutausbrüche, kaputte Ehen, Tobsuchtsanfälle, Betrug, Gefängnishaft, Depressionen, Angstzustände, Selbstmord. Ganz zu schweigen von Alkoholismus, der heimlichen, weithin verleugnete Branchenkrankheit.
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,500767,00.html

I blame myself for everything bad that happens; I am critical of myself for my weaknesses or mistakes; I don't get satisfaction out of anything anymore; I worry that this job is hardening me emotionally; I have trouble going to work in the morning.
http://www.observer.com/node/44824

"These frustrations can lead to a form of 'learned helplessness,' or a feeling that you are in a prison with no way out. Such feelings have been linked to levels of clinical depression."
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/12/business/yourmoney/12shrin...

Baltimore's business community was shocked when Sewell S. Watts, senior partner in Baker, Watts & Co., shot himself in his garage at the rear of his home at 1615 Park Ave.

W. Bladen Lowndes, a friend of the family, explained to reporters, "There was absolutely no reason, business or personal, why Mr. Watts should have committed suicide. He had been in a nervous state recently and had been worrying about the losses of his customers in the recent collapse of prices in the New York stock market."
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/business/hancock/blog/2008/0...

A share broker committed suicide with his 25-year-old wife and two and half year old son by blasting an LPG cyclinder at his home in SBH colony in Saidabad area of Hyderabad.

Bhupendra, 30, who police say was a stock broker and had been trading since last 12 years, cut the rubber pipe attached to the LPG cylinder in the kitchen of his house in G-61 and lit a match.
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Stock-broker-ends-li...

“A world of big egos. A world where people love to roll the dice with borrowed money, of tightwire trading, propelled by computers... that world is largely coming to an end.”

The centre of financial gravity has abruptly shifted to Washington.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/artic...