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by SirSourdough 1307 days ago
Sure, as long as your emotions are driven only by the contracts you sign.

People sign a waiver accepting the risk when they go whitewater rafting, but that doesn’t stop it from being a potentially life-altering traumatic experience for a rafting guide when a kid falls out and drowns under the raft.

Likewise, if you care about your client’s financial well-being as a wealth advisor, and you make a choice that destroys years of your client’s savings, retirement, etc. it would be understandable to feel distraught about that.