After he graduated from Somerville High School in 1924, Petrie worked briefly as a bank clerk and a securities salesman.

Richard Danbeck, no longer pulling down $200,000 a year as a securities salesman, went back to school in January of last year and kept thinking "Isn't this great, it's America."

The prosaic truth was that Howard had become a securities salesman for Prudential and the dedicated father of six children.

After graduating from the University of Alabama (where he was a brother of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity, Beta chapter) in 1949, he began his career as a securities salesman for Merrill Lynch.

After the Court expelled him, he returned to Connecticut and worked as a securities salesman.

He had also been a football player, a judo instructor, a home builder, a seller of oil-well equipment, and a securities salesman.

In 1929 Mr. Buhse went to work as a securities salesman in Chicago with Hornblower & Weeks, becoming a partner in 1942.

Over the last 40 years I have been an investment banker, securities salesman and, for a brief period, an employee of a bank.

For the last year or so, the weakness of our economy has been understated by economists looking for rosy scenarios and by securities salesmen on television trying to prop up the stock market.

Hyman, once a securities salesman, described himself in the 1990s as a meditation teacher and yogic flyer (Toronto Star, 30 May 1997).